Film Brain reviews a lo-fi sci-fi film from the team who made The Endless about sibling thieves who go hideout by travelling in time... which needed a shorter running time.
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00:00Things will be different is a clever bit of lo-fi sci-fi, directed by Michael Felker,
00:04who was the actor of The Endless. That film's directors, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, are executive producers.
00:10After committing a robbery, brother and sister, Adam David Thompson and Riley Dandy,
00:15go to a remote farmhouse to travel through time to hide out, but then get trapped there.
00:21It's basically two actors, one location, but Felker's script builds a mythology that makes it feel larger,
00:27but the heart of the movie is that brother-sister dynamic, and Thompson and Dandy are compelling.
00:32It's fairly obvious that movies like Primer, and especially Looper, were big inspirations for this film,
00:38especially later on, when a mysterious third character shows up at the farmhouse.
00:43Ironically for a film directed by an actor, this feels a touch too long.
00:47At 100 minutes, there's too many instances where the audience are waiting around, along with the characters, for something to happen.
00:54But if you're patient, you'll be rewarded with some smart, but bleak ingenuity.