7/25/20 - Volition (2020) - 5+/10

Concept: A scraping-by guy with limited clairvoyance is given his biggest job ever, but its avoiding his own death that he has just seen that becomes the real undertaking. This is a film that I was wholly onboard for the 1st half, but despite its decent ensemble, it’s well crafted shots, and sci-fi crime thriller potential, it gets bogged down in time travel inconsistencies and an unearned film driving need. The pitch is a killer low rent indie Minority Report, but the pieces don’t quite fit in this puzzle.

Time travel always gets sloppy and layering the story with multiple versions of the main character makes it even more frazzled because Primer or Inception this is not. Again, the baseline idea is marvelous, but our convoluted grandfather paradoxing sputters the film out. The chase is good, but once we grasp the prize, it is wanting. Its a fun film to ride along with, but it veers off road and the path becomes a bumpy one.