Friday 21 December 2012

"Safety Not Guaranteed" (Guardian 21/12/12)


Safety Not Guaranteed (15) 85 mins **

Eight years ago, Sundance premiered Shane Carruth’s coolly conceptual time-travel drama Primer; here’s the kooky romcom derivative, dotted with Star Wars nods and “wacky” training montages. Parks and Rec’s Aubrey Plaza plays a Seattle magazine intern investigating a small-town shelfstacker (Mark Duplass) who’s planned a trip back to 2001; the film dithers over how mentally troubled this individual is, until its geek-pandering finale. Plaza’s abrasive comic gifts are largely wasted amid the cutesiness, though New Girl’s Jake Johnson has a nice supporting turn as a blunt journo, nudging his charges away from his own past mistakes. 

Safety Not Guaranteed opens in selected cinemas from Boxing Day.

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