I caught this one on Netflix, and it was an interesting watch. It's not an all together different story than some other films, but there were a few interesting twists.
There are three main characters; Callie (Danielle Panabaker), Finn (Matt O'Leary), and Jasper (George Finn).
Danielle Panabaker is a familiar face to me. She starred in the re-boot of Friday the 13th (2009) and The Crazies.
Here is the breakdown of the story. The three live together, Callie and Finn as boyfriend/girlfriend, and Jasper as friend of Finn. A neighbor in their living complex mysteriously disappeared and Callie goes to check on him. What she finds in his apartment is an elaborate polaroid machine, and a wall full of polaroid photos, of the three of them; Callie, Finn and Jasper.
They start to analyze the photos and machine and realize it's taking a picture into their apartment every night at 8 p.m. Then they come to realize this machine is taking photos 24 hours into the future.
They soon plot to use this to their advantage, and Jasper starts betting on races where he can see who wins 24 hours ahead of time, and it's their get rich scheme.
The Polaroids start getting more and more disturbing. Hints of infidelity, being threatened by a bookie, the fact that the owner of this time machine camera is lying dead in a storage unit, all start leading them to make drastic choices, altering their futures.
The part I liked best was the ending. It was an ending I should have seen coming, and I did start to get a hint of in the last photo they showed, but I was still pleasantly surprised by the level of deceit that was underlying these pictures.
I would rate this movie 3 stars. It's not a stellar piece of work, but it's not boring either.
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