5.5
As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.
Eden Duncan-Smith
Claudette 'CJ' Walker
Dante Crichlow
Sebastian J. Thomas (as Danté Crichlow)
Stro
Calvin Walker (as Brian "Stro" Bradley)
Marsha Stephanie Blake
Phaedra Walker
Johnathan Nieves
Eduardo
Michael J. Fox
Mr. Lockhart
Myra Lucretia Taylor
Gloria Thomas
Wavyy Jonez
Dennis Owens
Rayshawn Richardson
Jared
Khail Bryant
Tiffany
Ejyp Johnson
Rosco
Barrington Walters Jr.
Keith
Muhammad Cunningham
Malik
Carlos Arce Jr.
Carlito (as Carlos Arce)
Rony Clanton
Sly
Yvette Mercedes
Rosie
Courtney Noel
Kingsley
Manny Ureña
Officer Perez
Brett G. Smith
Officer Bryce (as Brett Smith)
Michael A. Fearon
Carl
Damaris Lewis
Candice
Ron Bobb Semple
Nigel (as Ron Bobb-Semple)
Jeanine Ramirez
News Reporter
Patrice Bell
Kimberly
Frank Harts
Officer Battle
Jonathan Wilde
Officer Hoyt
Tuffy Questell
Meyer (Postman)
Tremaine Brown Jr.
Quincy
Monique Robinson
Shellon
Waliek Crandall
Simpson
Taliyah Whitaker
Zora
Samuel Smith
Priest
Boma Akpore
Funeral attendee (uncredited)
Allen Holloway
Ray (uncredited)
Director, Co-Writer
Stefon Bristol
Co-Writer
Fredrica Bailey
June 15, 2019
3
Just dumb, really dumb. Tonally it is all over the place, one second it's all bright shinny colours with Alan Silvestri style blockbuster score an upbeat tale of can-do genius inventor kids from the inner city, next second it's gritty gangsters and in your face black lives matter genius kids throwing all common sense out the window for hackneyed time travel save the day. And then it just stops. Not in an ambiguous way, just a kind of, hmm what else can we say about white cops shooting black teens for no reason, nothing more, okay let's just wrap it up then.
Dumb, preachy, doesn't follow it's own rules, bad acting, generally lame
Great music though. I can see what they were trying to do, make a genre film for a black audience. The problem is they took a white genre film script and peppered it with culture, instead of writing for an african american audience. So it comes across as looking like either white people trying to appeal to black audiences, or as black people trying to make a film that will promote their culture but still appeal to white people.
Net result is another sub-par Netflix film