I like the idea of this mockumentary, an alternate history of a world affected by time travel, but this ended up being kinda dull.
This looks and feels like someone's student project, not convincing enough to believable as a real documentary. Based on their acting, I would bet some of the actors doing all the interview scenes are just random friends of the director, not people who do any serious acting, especially the bearded guy who looks silly trying to convince us he's a college astrophysics professor. Also unconvincing were some of the black and white footage/photos that we're supposed to believe are old, but looked like modern people simply photographed in black and white.
Also, problematic is how the film doesn't stick to one narrative as far as the timelines go. By that I mean at some points in the mockumentary, it's told from the perspective that our history has already been altered, e.g., we live in a timeline where the Soviets landed on the moon first and that's all we know. That could have been more interesting, to tell it from a world whose history was already altered. But throughout the fake interviews in the mockumentary, the people being interviewed seem to fully know all the before-and-after details of all the events that had been altered by time travel, as if the changes to the timeline didn't even affect them.
If this had been more focused on how world history could have been altered by time travel, that would have been more interesting, but instead this mockumentary focuses mostly on a fictional story of a family of guys who invented time travel, but the story ended up being overly long and dull.
This looks and feels like someone's student project, not convincing enough to believable as a real documentary. Based on their acting, I would bet some of the actors doing all the interview scenes are just random friends of the director, not people who do any serious acting, especially the bearded guy who looks silly trying to convince us he's a college astrophysics professor. Also unconvincing were some of the black and white footage/photos that we're supposed to believe are old, but looked like modern people simply photographed in black and white.
Also, problematic is how the film doesn't stick to one narrative as far as the timelines go. By that I mean at some points in the mockumentary, it's told from the perspective that our history has already been altered, e.g., we live in a timeline where the Soviets landed on the moon first and that's all we know. That could have been more interesting, to tell it from a world whose history was already altered. But throughout the fake interviews in the mockumentary, the people being interviewed seem to fully know all the before-and-after details of all the events that had been altered by time travel, as if the changes to the timeline didn't even affect them.
If this had been more focused on how world history could have been altered by time travel, that would have been more interesting, but instead this mockumentary focuses mostly on a fictional story of a family of guys who invented time travel, but the story ended up being overly long and dull.