Tom Merrick gets caught up in a time-traveling conspiracy and must set the timeline right before it is irrevocably altered.
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You love good time travel stories with time paradox and entertaining SFX ? Avoid this like the plague ! Anything in it is not worth a Z Movie at all ! The acting is appalling, the lead actor is as talented and expressive as a tooth pick, so is the rest of the cast to be honest. The script is horrible, all characters are one dimentionnal and badly acted with no conviction at all. Even worse, you don't see a single "time travel" scene in the whole flick ! I know it is a "tv" movie but come on, not a single time travel scene shown on screen ? I know Z Movies that do offer at least ones despite their ultra small budget... To cut it short : if you want to enjoy some real and legit good Time Travel sequences, acting and stories MADE FOR TV...DOCTOR WHO AND The Twilight Zone are your friends and one billion times superior to this bad april fool joke !
(There are Spoilers) Interesting take on time travel involving this future travel agency that has its clients travel back in time to witness major disasters and at the same time not ultimately become a part, by getting killed, in them.Tabloid newspaper reporter Tom Merrick, Casper Van Dein, checking out his fellow investigative reporter's Liz Wintern's, Catherine Bell, computer finds this strange paradox in, official at the time news photos, the same person being at the scene of three different disasters, the Titanic the Hindenburg and Hurricane Hugo, within a time span of some ninety years! And on top of all that the mystery man Murray Trevor, Julian Richings, didn't seem to age a day!You can just imagine what Tom thought when he spotted this same Murray Trevor on his flight from Chicago to Washington D.C! He just knew that something terrible was about to happen and, on a hunch, then prevented it from happening: A major mid-air collision that was to take the lives of over 300 people!As he soon finds out Tom by preventing the collision from happening change the course of future event that resulted in the destruction, by someone on the plane surviving, of all of Southern California! What's even more shocking is that Tom himself was supposed to have been killed in a major warehouse fire some time ago but it was Trevor, who was there to enjoy the action, who accidentally prevented that from happening!The film has the head of the future time travel agency Grifasi, Martin Sheen, send two of his clean up employees or goons, in seeing that time marches on unperturbed, Cortez & Felder, Thereas Saldana & Peter Outerbridge, to make sure that Tom doesn't prevent any more major disasters from happening. The theory is, in future knowledge, if they don't happen in the past they'll sure as hell happen in the future! The future that Crifasi Cortez and Felder are living in!Very hard to follow at times with Tom & Co. going back and forth in time, with this device called the Santza Displacer, preventing as well as trying, in the case of Cortez & Felder, to encourage future deserters to happen all around the city of Chicago. The big pay-off is the forthcoming destruction of the Copps Sports Colosseum that was to cause the death of over 11,000 people. Two of them being Tom's ex-wife Jen, Deborah Odell, and nine year old son Kevin, Marc Donato!You just got to take things as they come, and not seriously, in "Thrill Seekers" knowing that with everything out of whack, in the time space continuum, you can't expect any logic in what's happening on screen. You do get an eyeful of top flight, for a made for TV movie, action scenes as well as people getting killed and, because of the time travel aspect of the film, coming back to life which more then makes up for the films hooky storyline. You also get an eyeful of actress Catherine Bell who when she lets her hair down and takes off her glasses, as well as puts on a tight fitting sweater, rivals the fiery action scenes, which she's soon to become a part of, in the film.
When examining photos of some of the great disasters of the 20th century, a investigative reporter discovers a man who appears in several of the disasters--separated by decades, yet seemingly not aging a day. So he begins to investigate. When he chances upon the same man on a plane flight, things start happening. Unfortunately, this promising sci-fi idea quickly dissolves into a disappointing bore, thanks in great part to the wooden and dull acting of Casper Van Dien. Apparently he thought this was a photo shoot and never engaged the acting gear. The beautiful Catherine Bell is wasted as the love interest. Somewhere in here there's a pretty good idea, but its not worth watching the movie to dig it out.
I'm a big fan of time travel movies even when they are lousy, but this is the plot to "Timeshifters" as I see it: a time-traveler from the future played by Julian Richings travels back in time to view the destruction of a nuclear plant. Distracting a reporter (Casper Van Dien), he causes the reporter to survive his would-be death altering the timeline to his future. The reporter's survival alters the outcomes of three more major disasters and results in yet another alternate future. Described from this angle, the movie would have been very boring, but instead told from Van Dien's character's point of view, we have a top notch action film with two MIB bounty hunters, shifting time-lines and a father reunited with his son. Van Dien is marvelous and convincing and Catherine Bell of "JAG" looks incredible (she's also a great actress). The "archive" photos of Richings at the Titanic, Hindenburg, and others disasters look very good as do the other special effects and plot twists. This is one movie I would want to see over and over!