Omni Loop | Film Review
When Zoya (Mary-Louise Parker), a quantum physicist becomes stuck in a time loop with only a week to live, she enlists the help of student Paula (Ayo Edebiri). Together, they try to solve the mystery of time travel. I have to admit, I only put this film on in the first place because it starred Ayo Edebiri. It's not a premise that necessarily stuck out to me, and I'm not sure it was one I would have watched otherwise. Ultimately, while I did go from not liking the film at all to liking it, the overall product wasn't really for me. It had an agonisingly slow start. It never tried to make me care about the characters or their world, and for a film that's mainly focused on one character, it does help if we actually care about her. It took a really long time for anything meaningful to happen, and by the time things did start happening, you just don't care because you haven't built a connection with any of the characters. Time loop movies are no longer original, bu...