Time travel is always fun, but Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox is downright ridiculous. Written and directed by Stimson Snead, the 2024 film saw a very limited release, earning only $2,725 at the box office. Sometimes, the numbers don’t lie when a film performs this poorly. In this case, though, the financial shortfall is simply due to lack of exposure and proper distribution.
I hope this article reaches the right people because Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox may very well be the funniest sci-fi movie I’ve had the joy of watching in the last decade. Thanks, Tubi! You’ve done it again.
The Tim Travers Rundown
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox starts with a simple premise that grows increasingly chaotic, hammering home its thesis: “Sometimes, a few hours can change a person.” According to IMDb and Wikipedia, the plot follows “a self-absorbed and misanthropic scientific genius who attempts to solve the time traveler’s paradox by exploring what happens when he kills his past self.”
That’s it. That’s the whole movie. Simple enough, right? Wrong. If you’re looking for a visual definition of taking an idea too far, this is it.
Why Won’t It Stop?!
After inventing a fully functioning time machine out of sheer boredom, Tim Travers (Samuel Dunning) immediately gets reckless in the name of science. He steps through the portal and shoots his past self in the head. This creates a loop where Tim Travers kills himself again, again, and again. Each new iteration is more absurd than the last, but the real problem is that he shouldn’t still exist.
Knowing that proper science demands rigorous testing, Tim repeats the experiment dozens of times. Thirty minutes in, I stopped counting how many times he pulled the trigger. Eventually, a whole squad of Tim Traverses assemble to figure out why the experiment hasn’t collapsed reality, leading to more failed experiments and one massive orgy.
Meanwhile, Delilah (Felicia Day), the film’s sort-of love interest, discovers Tim’s lab, enters the machine, finds her past self, and kills her in a split-second panic, setting off her own chain reaction.
Relentlessly Obnoxious But Smart As Hell
As Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox clones and clobbers its way through its second and third acts, the chaos continues to escalate. Each Tim shares the same core personality but with subtle variations, their differences shaped by where they fall in the causal chain. As they all repeat, “sometimes, a few hours can change a person.”
The trouble is, Tim is the worst kind of know-it-all. Every version interrupts the others with smug corrections, arguing endlessly just to stay entertained. Watching them all spiral into intellectual self-destruction is as infuriating as it is hilarious.
Clocking in at 104 minutes, Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox falls short of “a few hours,” but it’ll definitely change how you look at everything after streaming it on Tubi.
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