Plus, any emotion is sucked dry by Taylor's stilted performance.
THE MOVIE ARQ GENERATOR
You can still see glimpses of the easy charm he showed off in that flick, but here, he's playing an engineer hiding an energy generator from the corrupt war corporation Torus, his previous employer. Hannah and the perps don't realize they're in Minority Report until Hannah accidentally shoots Renton, starting a loop where they both know they're doing the time warp again.Īmell is most well-known for his stint on The CW's The Flash and last year's surprisingly good teen comedy, The DUFF. When Renton dies, he wakes up in bed again just before the break-in and the scenario repeats and repeats, with Renton learning a little more every time.
But really, they could be travel passes or those packets from Spy Kids that turn into Happy Meals. In ARQ's first loop, Renton (played by Robbie Amell) wakes up in bed next to his kind-of-ex Hannah (Rachael Taylor) as three masked men break down their door, tie them up, and demand all his "scrips." (It should be noted that if you were playing a drinking game that mandated a shot for every time someone in this movie said "scrips," you would die of alcohol poisoning.) We're never told what they are, though it's implied they're currency in this reality. But there's something particularly excruciating about watching a bad movie that keeps repeating the same thing every 10 minutes. Watching a bad movie is never an enjoyable experience (with the exception of one that's so bad it's good).
What would Groundhog Day be like if it wasn't funny? What if Bill Murray were replaced with a CW star and the entire thing was set in the kind of grim dystopia Jennifer Lawrence would feel right at home in? It would be ARQ, an original Netflix movie premiering September 16 - and it probably shouldn't go on your binge-watch list
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