I’m immediately reminded on the tagline for Timecop: “They killed his wife ten years ago. There’s still time to save her.” Because of course there is. That’s how movies work. YAY! I grew up believing that we needed time travel so we could rectify all of our problems. Now I feel like of course time travel exists; and we have pretty good proof that it has been used effectively to promote evil. How else do you explain two (2) Trump presidencies? “We wanted this?” HA! Like HELL we did.
Today’s sci-fi is bad on the sci, but good on the fi, not unlike My Old Ass. Lucy (Madison Bailey) lives in the wake of her sister, 21 years dead. Summer (Antonia Gentry) was the pride of Sweetly High (The Fightin’ Corpses) back in 2003 when a slasher erased her and several of her friends. Years later, the school has survived, barely. The school and the town share the scars of the series of unsolved murders.
The parents of Summer and Lucy are zombie-like: uninspired and emotionally dead, crippled by the thought of their dead princess and unable to transfer any of the dotage onto her replacement. Lucy is a talented student, having just achieved a NASA internship, not that her parents know or care.
While out on the annual family vigil, Lucy finds an abandoned barn housing a time machine, as one does. Within seconds, Lucy is transported back to pre-murder Sweetly. This will come in quite handy when Lucy wishes to destroy the space-time continuum. Seriously, Lucy knows all about the murders to come; what would you do? And what if your older sister befriends you as a peer … and you have no place to sleep? You might just roll with it, no?
The last time we had a time travel slasher film was Totally Killer, which bothered me because the effort to stop the killer ended in more dead than in the original timeline 
(some savior you are, huh?). Hence, when the day 1 bodycount was three instead of a historical two, I was irked by this one as well. I mean, c’mon people, what is the good of time travel if you can’t at least correct the history only you know about, huh?
At this point, however, the film becomes much less about the mechanics, intricacies, and consequences of time travel and more about what it is to go from “only child” to having a sibling. This is where the film works, and where Time Cut makes the cut. There is very little in the realms of sci-fi or horror that attracts me to this picture, but I do love the idea of a girl saving her sister because they both could use an ally. Can’t say this is a huge win, but Time Cut kept my attention and interest for the 91 minutes it had me.
Once there was a science progeny
Who traveled back in time reluctantly
“Hey, there’s my sister
Gosh, I sure have missed her
And I will again cuz she’s gonna die at three.”
Rated TV-14, 91 Minutes
Director: Hannah Macpherson
Writer: Michael Kennedy, Hannah Macpherson
Genre: Playing with time
Type of being most likely to enjoy this film: Estranged sisters
Type of being least likely to enjoy this film: Physicists
