SummaryHector is relaxing on a lawn chair outside of his new country home, surveying the nearby hillside through a pair of binoculars, when he catches sight of what appears to be a nude woman amidst the trees. Hiking up to investigate, he is attacked by a sinister figure whose head is wrapped in a grotesque, pink bandage. Fleeing in terror, he takes ref... Read More
Directed By:Nacho Vigalondo
Written By:Nacho Vigalondo
Timecrimes
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80
When done well, they are scintillating cinematic brain teasers, and Timecrimes is one of the best time travel films to come along in, er, quite some time.
75
Vigalondo is only partially capable of building suspense (the film's latter stages contain one knot too many); his achievement owes more to his imagination than his pop craftsmanship.
User score
Generally Favorable
70% Positive
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
18% Mixed
10 Ratings
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7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Jan 16, 2026
10
Encontrei esse filme pesquisando por filmes de viagem no tempo. Minhas expectativas eram bem baixas antes de assistir, mas me surpreendeu. É um ótimo filme sobre viagem no tempo, suspense e com elementos de comédia. Recomendo muito, é um filme completamente incomum para esse gênero.
Mar 15, 2012
8
Best foreign film I've seen in a while. If you are in the mood for a suspense, thriller and either can deal with subtitles, enjoy them, or speak Spanish; watch this film! It really was nice to watch a movie that is not a remake, super cliche, or with terrible acting. Speaking of acting, there are really only four actors in this film, two of which are very minor, and one is the director. All together, the acting was superb.Timecrimes flows so well, and without any confusion. A person with little to no understanding in topics like the pseudoscience workings of a time machine, or knowledge of the space time continuum could easily understand what is happening in the film. The movie was close-to perfectly written and pieced together with zero holes that I could find. I seriously may re-watch this movie with my fiance or friends very soon, and it would be totally worth it. For my full review, visit ****/2012/03/timecrimes.html
75
Overall, it's a nice melding of sci-fi and a crime story.
75
Yet while it isn't that hard to stay a step or two ahead of Timecrimes, the movie is still a nifty little genre piece, an old-fashioned science-fiction mind-game with a healthy dollop of "Oh, the irony."
70
Timecrimes welds a B-movie plotline to precision-engineered writing and a down-to-earth style; add an engagingly sloppy, nonplussed hero, who remains unfazed by the time-bending scrape in which he finds himself, and the result is memorably offbeat.
67
There's a dark and demented little psychodrama of self-inflicted madness beneath the narrative contrivances. Vigalondo's direction makes it work more like a waking nightmare than a genuine experience, and he gives it the quality of madness.
40
Only half as clever as it thinks and even less entertaining.
Feb 14, 2017
7
Overall pretty engaging. Two negatives - unrealistic character reactions to events, and lack of motivation in the plot (particularly in Hectors actions in the middle piece). On the plus side there's a pretty clever bit of time-twisty plot logic, and the those twists come so fast your head won't stop spinning
Jan 12, 2021
6
Many people praised Vigalondo for Colossal, which for me was a huge disappointment, but from everything I've seen of him so far, this is his best film.
Sep 11, 2016
2
$2.6m budget for this! It would be difficult to justify $50k. Weak time loop trite. Watch it for a laugh but don't expect any special effects apart from a bit of tomato sauce.
Production Company:
- Karbo Vantas Entertainment
- Fine Productions
- Zip Films
- Arsénico Producciones
Release Date:Dec 12, 2008
Duration:1 h 32 m
Rating:R
Tagline:A Trip Back in Time... from Present to Crime
Awards
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Austin Fantastic Fest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
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