Redux Redux: A Multiverse Revenge Thriller That Reframes Grief

Redux Redux, from brothers Kevin and Matthew McManus, uses multiverse travel as the central device in a story about grief and vengeance. Irene (Michaela McManus) spends years jumping to alternate universes in a coffin-shaped, steampunk machine to kill the man who murdered her daughter.

The film treats the multiverse less as a sci-fi gimmick and more as a metaphor for a mother trapped in a cycle of anger and numbness. Through repetition across hundreds of timelines, Irene has learned that Neville (Jeremy Holm) is the murderer, that he works at a diner and that he gets paid on Thursdays.

Each timeline ends the same way—she shoots, suffocates, or burns him—but killing no longer brings catharsis. Technical explanations of dimension-hopping are largely sidelined, and the modest action beats are staged efficiently to serve the character’s emotional arc.

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