2012’s Chronicle was a found-footage yarn of superpowered teens. This shakycam effort does the same for time travel, but less well. Gifted nerd Jonny Weston spots his present-day self on a decade-old home video; then he and his friends find his dad’s time machine.
They take a while getting it to work, though the first time trip’s exciting. Youthful hijinks and wish fulfilment follow, before things go bad. The time-travel is interestingly depicted through distorted camera footage, but the story rehashes umpteen other films, with holey logic, lumpy pacing and often indecipherable dialogue.
