Back home

Primer

2365 votes

Producing House

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 2004-10-08

Runtime: 77 mins

Director: Shane Carruth

Writer: Shane Carruth

Spoken language: English, Français

Genres: Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller

Original title: Primer

Production Companies: erbp

Production Countries: United States of America

Reviews

J

JN2012
Brilliant concept, yet so-so execution which would have been helped by a higher budget. However, this is a brilliant attempt at creating a time travel film with next to no money. While the film has its faults, the performances and dialogue are great and I love that it doesn’t expect its audience to be dumb; by the way, when I say that… I mean it. This is maybe the most confusing film of all time.
2023-10-15

G

Geronimo1967
This has quite a clever concept - a group of four engineering friends are building a prototype piece of equipment. "Abe" (David Sullivan) discovers - accidentally - when testing it, that is has positively game-changing potential and confides his secret in his colleague "Aaron" (Shane Carruth). Rather than share this invention between the group, the two decide to relocate their gadget and use it to exploit the stock markets and make themselves rich. It demonstrates quite well, the conflicting values and morals that this sort of limitless opportunity might present if given to any one of us - but the characterisations are way too one-dimensional. The dialogue is relentless, and after a while you just want them to stop talking and get on with it. It's short - and does require a bit of concentration to get anything out of it - but more, I found, as a source of an ethical conversation about "what if?" than about anything to do with this piece of drama, itself.
2023-09-04

Recommendations

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
2.7

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

1993-03-17

The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japa

A Little Fugue of Love
0

A Little Fugue of Love

2016-01-01

Having just finished building a time machine, an inventor tries to show it off to impress his childh

25th Hour
3.7

25th Hour

2002-12-19

On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom c

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
3.4

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

1989-02-17

Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history clas

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
3.1

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

1991-07-19

Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a v

Time Machine
0

Time Machine

2011-01-01

An inventor demonstrates the fun - and perils - of his new time-travelling device.

Returner
3.3

Returner

2002-08-31

A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion whi

Fermat's Room
3.3

Fermat's Room

2007-10-07

Four mathematicians are imprisoned in a shrinking room; with the walls closing in, they must try any

Apartment Zero
3.4

Apartment Zero

1989-09-02

In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling mov

El hombre de la luz
0

El hombre de la luz

2025-10-23

The Mesa de Adrián region, located between the towns of La Paya and Bailadores in the state of Mérid

Riders of Justice
3.6

Riders of Justice

2020-11-19

Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However,

Flop Stoppers
4.5

Flop Stoppers

2016-10-22

Two fanboys risk their lives to preserve the sanctity of the comic book lore they love. But in navig

Proof
3.2

Proof

2005-09-05

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant

The Jacket
3.4

The Jacket

2005-03-04

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left wit

(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
3.1

(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1

2004-07-14

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul, lead a forc

Shallow Grave
3.5

Shallow Grave

1994-12-22

When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to h

Antitrust
3

Antitrust

2001-01-11

A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers h

Sapphire Blue
3.6

Sapphire Blue

2014-08-14

Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve.

Peggy Sue Got Married
3.1

Peggy Sue Got Married

1986-10-10

At her 25th high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and awakens in 1960—back in her senior year, befor

Premonition
3.1

Premonition

2007-02-08

A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awaken