Whiny lead character, unrelatable and downright irritating characters, six grader grasp of time travel and borderline idiotic plot twists and resolutions of the same.

The idea, if one could call it that, was there. A corporation understand that the Earth is beyond repair. The planet is dying, air is not only unbreathable but toxic, oxygen is a commodity people work and kill for, it's a dog eat dog world and it's only getting worse. But there is a brilliant scientist working on a time machine because, you know, that's what scientists in a world on the verge of collapse do.

Here's where the stupid begins, or should I say stupidurr begins.

[spoiler]The scientist, who's supposed to be smart, wants to use this time machine to ask the people in the future how they fixed the Earth. Yep, that's his idea. A man capable of building a time machine can't grasp the facts that are slapping him across the face. There won't be a humanity within a few years let alone hundreds of years in the future. But the guy has _faith_ in humanity. This is where I had to fight the urge to throw up. He has faith that humanity will figure it out?! I mean, really?! Have you met us?![/spoiler]

[spoiler]Then he realizes his boss, chunky lady with high school level acting skills, wants to use the machine to do what should have been the plan from the get go. Start the machine, create a present-future bridge and just go through it. Future Earth has healed since humanity is long dead. It's a fresh start. It's common sense. But nooo...[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Sitting on his high horse called Faith In Humanity Driven Morality, the scientist locks out the machine in the future with his son's DNA, meaning that the son is the only one who can activate the machine from the other end. Oh, right, I forgot to mention that. The machine don't work unless you activate it from the other side. The scientists is killed, his wife is killed and the sun is entrusted in the care of the corporation's agent to protect him until the future machine sends a text message it's all good over there and the kid can come over. Why the corporation doesn't use the orphans DNA to unlock the locked machine right now is beyond me.[/spoiler]

The stupid just keeps on coming. Every problem the movie presents is solvable in far more easier ways than the movie presents them. I feel that the writer/director had a flash idea (we all have those) of a guy traveling into the future to find another dead guy _wink wink_ and decided to patch together elements of other, far better time travel stories to fill the run time.

Honestly, if you have an hour and a half to kill, don't mind the whiny lead, his motivation of saving his wife (a relationship neither actors manages to sell as either believable or worth saving, tbh) and the borderline idiotic concept of time travel, give it a go.

Overall, decent, but could have used a bit of refinement. Lots of cookie cutter plot and one dimensional characters. Ethan is a little bit of a wuss that tends to be pathetic in most of the key scenes.

The story was good and actually was deeper than the other reviews would have you believe. The premise was good, but like so many other movies of this calibre there is a lot of wasted time leveraging a confused or indecisive character that really shouldn't be confused or indecisive. It also tries to make things more confusing to the viewer than they are. I would honestly rather lose 20 minutes of screen time than have these story devices be used to prolong the runtime.

The movie is definitely watchable, but it is frustrating to watch at times.

I do have a somewhat silly question, how did all the plants die? Since it is the entire basis for the movie, this could have used some explanation that the ibteo did not porvide. Plants are more heat tolerant than humans and have flourished in much warmer climates than we have now. They also thrive on CO2 which we love to dump into the atmosphere. So other than the asshats cutting down the rain forests, what actually killed off the plant life? I could understand rising temps killing off algae and reducing that part of the oxygen production, which is very significant, but for all plants life to die seems ridiculous. Seems like greenhouses would continue to survive and would be something that could be scaled up to produce more oxygen on a local scale. Not everywhere would be able to afford this, but plants should survive and there should be oxygen. To have most of the world without oxygen seems implausible.

I live in Sydney, a city which suffered its worst air quality in ten years in 2020 due to smoke caused by bushfires. Not only that, but a long-promised clean air strategy for the state of New South Wales is already three years overdue. Deforestation, pollution and species extinction are some of the most pressing issues of our time, and many of the world's best storytellers are bringing these issues to life on film. That's a great thing: a well-crafted movie can actually bring us closer to nature and inspire us to protect it. Unfortunately, despite boasting some slick-looking effects, nifty set design and scarily relevant themes, the lumpy screenplay of '2067' makes it hard to recommend.
- Jake Watt

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