So, it's a romantic film.

Yep, the paper-thin premise of time travel is nothing if not a poor excuse for a romance between the protagonist, and the Mysterious Woman (tm).

I really liked the introduction; i can see that someone here really cared, and they made the whole "experiment" seem like something out of a hard-scifi film, similar to Primer (2004). But after the first scene, the sci-fi stops and the film becomes a blue- tinted chase between the Scientist Hero (tm), and a girl who come out of nowhere.

Now, i personally would think, if you are on the verge of discovering wormhole travel, you would have reasons to avoid a woman's charms, more so when you are in a precarious situation and she could likely be someone trying to trick you; you've even received a phone call telling you to stay away from her.

But nooo, you need to go and chase a skirt, because who cares about science, not us scientists, no.

Add to the flimsy plot a mild, inoffensive villain (michael ironside, phoning it in as always), and stretch the resulting mess to nearly two hours, and you have a good impression of what Synchronicity is like.

The leads McKnight and Davis do a decent job of acting their parts, and the supporting try their mediocre best, but it's just the fact that the romance/intrigue bits, and the science/adventure bits, just do not mix together, with one being almost irrelevant to the other.

And finally, will directors of photography everywhere PLEASE learn to use natural lightning; this film is obviously going for that smoky Blade Runner look, but winds up mostly looking blue.

would not recommend, it will disappoint scifi lovers and confuse romcom fans. My final vote: 5.5/10 - not garbage, but so much wasted potential.

A team of scientist is frantically pursuing a breakthrough in their work. They are developing a kind of black hole back-door to communicate through time and space.

As in most time travel stories, the plot twists and turns and multiple perspectives on the same scene from different angles make up a lot of the fun in these kind of movies. And Synchronicity does this well given the available resources. To be honest, this is not the most sophisticated time travel movie, but it has character and is well-made. It kept me hooked and interested.

Michael Ironside probably is the most appealing name of the cast, he has a minor role as an investor/shareholder in the project. Main characters McKnight and Davis have a nice chemistry together and carry the movie with their performances.

The film has everything you could want: a 1980's soundtrack, a noir look a la Blade Runner, a scientist mad with the possibilities of his time travel machine and a beautiful girl to make it all worthwhile. Add to this Michael Ironside, who just lends gravitas to the entire thing and the only thing you could be missing is a smart script. And you are not, because this movie is smart.

So why didn't it become an instant classic? Because in the end, it was one hour and forty minutes for a punchline. The possibilities were infinite, pardon the pun, but the movie did not capitalize on them. That is why many of the people are either disappointed with the result or frustrated for not getting the complicated mechanics of time travel.

For me, it was a stylistically beautiful movie, with a lot of love poured into it. The acting was good, the story interesting. Most stories are usually broken by the addition of time travel or are based on it so much that they ignore anything else that might matter. Synchronicity did not fall into the first category and came very close to slip from the second and into the one of great films. I am sure that if it would have been done in the 80s, the time it seemed to belong to - pardon the pun again, it would have had a great success.

Bottom line: clearly better than average, but not consistently so. It has great moments and silly underdeveloped ones, it has a story with a lot of potential, but only a bit of it capitalized into anything. Certainly worth a watch.