SNAPSHOT
In Reset, Yang Mi (The Bullet Vanishes) plays a single mother and scientist who is developing a method of traveling through time using black holes. And then a mysterious bad guy played by Wallace Huo (Swordsman) kidnaps her son and demands that she hand over the time-travel technology. Instead, she uses the as-yet-unfinished time machine to go back in time two hours, to try and save her son before he gets kidnapped. (synopsis by Charlie Jane Anders, Gizmodo)
It’s pretty much a given that you should never ever play around with the space-time continuum.
Largely because if you do Bad Things Happen.
But what if you were forced to play around willy-nilly to save someone you loved? Would that be OK?
Probably not I’m guessing since purity of motive is not usually what completely stuffs up the space-time continuum and leaves intelligent dinosaurs, apes or zombies in charge of the present day while those nearest and dearest to us cease to exist, and worse yet end up working for minimum wage at a cage-fitting complex.
Reset, which according to Gizmodo comes with quite the Asian film making talent pedigree – “It’s directed by Yoon Hong Seung (The Target) … [and] the crew includes some high-profile Korean film-makers, including cinematographer Choi Chan-min (Kundo: Age of the Rampant) … [with executive producing duties falling to] Jackie Chan” – has just started production so don’t camp out at your cinema complex just yet.
But when it does arrive, it looks like being one of the more intriguing time travel films to come along in a while.
Let’s just hope she doesn’t tread on a butterfly …