About time
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie
Rated: 5.5/10
Just when you are about to give up on the potential of this time travel romance with family heartbeats, the story starts unfolding and you rise above the below average looks of the hero and his extraordinary ordinariness. You realise he has a gift that transcends even his rare ability to travel back in time every now and then to reset his future. He is a man with a lot of earnest emotions, gentle humour and kindness, traits that make this movie a puller, may be a late puller but a puller nevertheless.
The director does well to keep this one simple, hinged on romance and family woven together beautifully. The pace too is deliciously languid much like the Cornish moorings its draws its locational beauty from. The strength of a mother’s character who is about to lose her indispensable husband to cancer is as powerfully portrayed as a dying father’s love for his son whom he will see for the last time. In short, it is a sensitive story, told sensitively.