Omni Loop (2024)

Premise: Marie-Louise Parker, the mom from Weeds, is having a tough time: first they tell her she’s got a black hole in her chest (yes), then they tell her she’s got about, I guess, a week to live (ouch), then she decides she should find out once and for all what’s what with these pills she’s had since she was a kid that let her travel exactly five days back while keeping all of her memories. Things are looking a bit dire and existential so she recruits Ayo Ederebi’s (the girl from The Bear) help and crosses her fingers very hard hoping to solve time travel once and for all.
Under 90 minutes? Nope, way more than that.
Do they say the title? Nah. Cowards.

One sentence review: what if groundhog day, but sad???
Rating: So, they lied to me. My friend told me this was a “charming time loop movie” and well yes it was but it was also sad and a bit less sci-fi, way more heavy in what it is talking about than I expected. This doesn’t mean the film was bad (not at all, no matter what people on imdb would tell you), it just feels a bit whiplash-ish because I was honestly expecting a dumb comedy and I got some drama. I am starting to think I should find better friends.
A simple way to improve it: given that the movie is completely nonchalant about some sci-fi concepts like the chest black hole and so on, I wish there was a bit more of the amazing nanoscopic man. Time Loop movies can get very spooky, but man does the little they talk about that dude make your mind wander.

Trivia about the IMDb trivia one of the IMDb reviews:

I thought this lady was supposed to be a genius… The movie is flawed from the start. The protagonist, played by Sally Field, states she can’t go back in time further than a week earlier. And yet, she can easily do that by waking up a week earlier and taking a pill right then and there instead of waiting for a week to pass. All she needs to do is to know where the pills were a week earlier every single time, and she would successfully travel weeks, months, and years back in time.

At some point I need to add a “they literally bring this up and address this in the movie, my friend” funny pic because goodness. I wonder if this person was even looking at the movie or just starting to type the review on their phone, because what the hell.