Five fantastic time travel movies: what to watch this weekend

Incredible time travel, saving humanity, testing true feelings, exciting and dangerous adventures, all this and much more for fans of science fiction movies. UNN offers a selection of adventure movies to watch this weekend.

The Time Machine 2002 - The Time Machine is based on the popular novel of the same name by H.G. Wells. The beloved of the film's protagonist, young professor Alexander Hartdegen, tragically dies. Emma's death makes a deep impression on the talented scientist, and he decides to do everything possible to turn back time and save the girl. Alexander is bitter to learn that the past cannot be changed. Testing his theories with the help of a time machine he invented himself, Hartdegen travels 800,000 years into the future, where he discovers that humanity has divided into hunters and hunted.

• Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

• Country: USA

• Director: Simon Wells

• Cast: Guy Pearce, Mark Eddy, Phyllida Lo, Sienna Gillory, Laura Kirk, Josh Stemberg

About Time 2013 - On his twenty-first birthday, a young and naive boy Tim learns a family secret - it turns out that all the men in their family can travel through time. The boy decides to use his superpowers for his own personal benefit. Moreover, he has a good reason for this - the first date with his beloved girl was not up to par, and now he has the opportunity to try again to make a first impression on her. The hero is sure that love does not always arise instantly, at first sight, which means that he has every chance of pleasing his beloved. He intends to travel through time and repeat their first date until the feelings are mutual. But soon Tim will have to learn that not all events in his life can be fixed. And that every change has its consequences...

• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance

• Country: United Kingdom

• Director: Richard Curtis

• Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Richard Corddry

Safety Not Guaranteed 2012 is a witty comedy with an unusual twist and a funny plot. A strange advertisement appears in a Seattle newspaper - someone is looking for a time traveling companion. He doesn't guarantee safety, but claims to have already experienced this method himself. Almost anyone would say that the ad's author is crazy, but the newspaper editor and three young journalists don't think so. They go to the time traveler to conduct a journalistic investigation. In a seaside town, the paparazzi quickly find the author of the note - a supermarket clerk named Kenneth. It remains to be seen whether he is a prankster or a self-taught inventor, but the FBI unexpectedly intervenes.

• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

• Country: USA

• Director: Colin Trevorrow

• Actors: Aubrey Plaza, Lauren Carlos, Basil Harris, Meri Lynn Rayskab, Jake Johnson, Karan Son

Predestination 2014 - in order to prevent crimes, a special squad of time-traveling police officers was assembled, one of whom is the main character of the film. He can be proud of himself and his professional achievements without hesitation. There is no criminal who can escape from him, even in the distant past. Being at the "peak" of his professional and personal fame, he suddenly loses the love of his colleagues and superiors. After all, a puzzle appears that even he cannot solve. And this is fraught with more than one global catastrophe. For example, the one that will make New York disappear from the face of the earth any day now.

• Genre: Detective Stories, Dramas, Thrillers, Science Fiction

• Country: Australia

• Director: Director

• Cast: Peter Spirig, Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Christopher Kirby

Synchronic 2019 - New Orleans paramedics Steve and Dennis are faced with a series of strange and frantic murders. Their duties include responding only to cases where people are on the verge of death. Recently, the film's heroes have encountered victims with approximately the same bag of white powder next to them each time. In the end, Dan and Steve decide to find a person who managed to escape from the other world after taking the drug. It turns out that this is not so easy. In the course of the investigation, they manage to find out an interesting fact: according to the information received, people who used this substance mentally moved on the border of two worlds - it was at this moment that their hearts stopped beating.

• Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi

• Country: USA

• Directed by: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorehead

• Cast: Jamie Dornan, Anthony Mackie, Kathy Aselton, Ellie Ioannides, Bill Oberst Jr., Adam J. Smith End, Martin Bath Bradford, Devin Tyler