Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox: an exhausting indie time‑travel romp

Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox is an exhausting indie romp about time travel that, according to a review, earns some points for the sheer quantity of its 'gibbering, jabbering nonsense' and for an amusing late cameo from Keith David as the Simulator, AKA God, who tells mortals God is 'rather like a self-published novelist' and snaps, "It's not my fault if you don't understand the industry!"

Samuel Dunning plays Tim Travers, a goateed scientist who has stolen nuclear materials from a terrorist group to power the time machine he has invented. He sends himself back one minute with a gun to kill his younger self to investigate the time‑traveller's paradox: if he eliminates his one‑minute younger self, won't he disappear because he cannot exist in the future? The review says 'apparently it’s the latter,' and Tim keeps going back repeatedly, creating many different selves, one of which indulge in a bizarre off‑camera orgy. A hitman working for the furious terrorist group is tasked with whacking the space‑time clones, and the film includes a walk‑on from Danny Trejo.

The reviewer adds that the film 'drones on and on' and, while it can be intermittently funny and features notable cameos, it also produces the unintended side‑effect of making you appreciate Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which treated similar ideas with a much lighter touch.

Key Topics

Culture, Tim Travers, Samuel Dunning, Keith David, Danny Trejo, Time Travel