wahn06 I am a big fan of the time travel concept and movies, that is why giving it three stars. Otherwise, I had to see the wikipedia page of this movie to find out what the plot actually was! Of course, I found out, the plot was good, but I couldn't follow it while watching it, and I have followed the plots of all time travel movies I have watched. I can forgive the producer, director and actors because it was a very low budget film, but please don't make such crap again.

denis888 .Esquire's Mike D'Angelo claimed that "anybody who claims he fully understands what's going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar"/ I am neither, and yes, I did NOT get this awful, amareur, painfully boring, slow and yawning piece of unwanted junk. The worst? In the genre of time travel, I guess, yes, it is. "Primer is hopelessly confusing and grows more and more byzantine as it unravels," Chuck Klosterman writes and man, is he not right. I could not master this short but hopelessly lost and endless languid piece of inertia. One moment it dawned on me this is a good thing for one and only issue - it will heal your bout of insomnis for ever.

Steve Let me preface this review by saying this film is not for everyone. This indie is frustrating and difficult to follow. And intentionally so. Shane Carruth set out to take a basic sci-fi concept and obfuscate it in nearly every aspect, but did so in order to ground it as much as possible. He complicated to simplify. The result was so aggravatingly ingenious, I felt slapped in the face. But that good slap that you think you want more of. The budget was $7,000, and that's all this man needed to play head games with me. There are some neat technical achievements here, but the central themes of Primer and the way they were impressively executed are what have my applause. 7/10 — watching Primer.

lonewulz THIS REVIEW IS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN THE MOVIEI'll give this one a 4. And I'm being generous. The plot could be explained in 30 seconds. Instead, we are held captive for 80 minutes listening to two young inventors exchange pseudo-scientific, nonsensical, meaningless jargon and intentionally confusing theories and observations. I constantly wondered what their actual footprint in time was, compared to when they first started. Of course, that's what the screenwriter intended so I guess it was a success in some regard. It was a disappointment that the fruits of their labor were never shown--it would have been nice to see them succeed in one of the many investments they made. I found myself waiting for the morbid sense of gloom to be replaced with hope for the two guys. Never happened.Oh and Abe was horribly miscast. David Sullivan looked and acted like a college freshman athlete and all the seemingly intelligent mumbo jumbo was hardly believable, uttered from his lips. They should have at least cleaned him up a little bit and thrown some glasses on him.Ultimately, the psycho-babble exchanges between the two engineers becomes annoying, as you realize it's not meant to progress the story. It's only synthetically dramatic filler. In fact, I don't know who these purposeless verbal exchanges were meant to entertain: Reasonably intelligent people see right through it; and slower or uninterested people certainly couldn't take anything away from it.The movie was unsatisfying on just about every level but, it's graded on a curve and I've seen way worse.