csbeapt Repeaters don't give you anything brand new. But what it gives, is a decent moral questions: would you do something if it is absolutely sure you won't get punished? If you have morals of course you won't do it. Is freedom really about you can do whatever you want? Do you have the right to do immoral things when you are in extraordinary situation?To be fair, these questions are making this movie's rate 7. I have seen other time repeating movies, and they were more comedies. This is decently dark, more human, no laughter. But in exchange you get important moral questions to think about.For me as an atheist it is representing the question: Can an atheist be moral? And the answer is absolutely yes. If you have freedom to do whatever you want without punishment, it is YOUR choice to be jerk or normal. It is your decision if you want to live in the moral squalor you made, or make your environment better.I know this review was personal, but it is always good to have personal message from a movie.For sum it up: I might watch it once more. It is generally a good movie. It is not epic, but I think this is a recommended movie for everybody over a certain maturity level.

jabrbi What do you do if you're drug addicts and you experience Groundhog Day? You squander all the opportunities that repeating a day can bring you and go completely psycho. You continue to show just how bad a human being you are until the day stops repeating and normality returns.There, I've saved you 90 minutes of your life.This deliberately drab, depressing film, takes the Groundhog Day premise and crams as much sadness into one day as possible - nothing good ever comes from the protagonists actions. Events simply spiral down into total chaos and disaster.Sadly, where the premise breaks down is that, although the protagonists remember the repeated day, they also do a lot of mind-altering drugs during the repeated day, and the question of how their memories are affected from one day to the next is never addressed. How can you restart a day when your previous memories are warped by alcohol, heroine or cocaine? When you wake up the day after flooding your body with chemicals with no continuing effects, how does that alter your view of the world? Only by addressing this question could this film have been a worthwhile contribution to the wash, rinse, repeat cycle of film making.In the end the cycles appear to stop repeating, time resumes it's normal course, no explanations are given, and nothing much has changed. What started the repeat cycle? Don't know. What stopped the repeat cycle? Don't know. What happened to the protagonists? Don't care.What happens next? Not depressed enough to want to find out.

dancenog Firstly can I say - I really enjoyed the movie. I thought it was well acted and gripping throughout. I even like the 'ending' which most people seemed to have a problem with.My two different opinions of the story arc:1/ The 3 of them are dead from the initial accidents. This would explain why upon repeating the days, the electrocutions didn't repeat - because this is something that was fixed/ they were dead/ and no way to change that. The 3 characters were in Purgatory or Limbo as they say. The Days are repeated so that the souls can learn of their errors or take stock of their lives. Burdens can be lifted with the journey to put things right. In effect, none of it (after the accident) took place in this conscious world but the soul was given a change to learn and move onwards or not. As for the character who went the wrong way - then he was made to face his worst fears over and over. On one hand, he died (but he was already dead) which signalled the end of the other 2 characters retrospective loops. Yes the end was in the sanitarium, not a prison. He woke to his fathers image as he was forced to feel that pain over and over again. He wasn't physically with his father at that point. The film opens with the quote 'Dont wait for the last judgement, it happens everyday' - IE its not about the end result but the journey in getting there.Other Opinion: After the accident, their days repeated for the reasons above - until wrongs acknowledged and put right. Lessons learned. So when the day moves on, its because all directions had been chosen. For Sonia and Kyle, they had acknowledged the wrongs and took steps to amend/move forward. For weeks his direction was the opposite one. At this point, weeks had no remorse and no accountability thus his soul was damned. He was forced on one hand to 'live' with his own torment (IE dad)over and over. On the other hand, he still had a part to play in Kyles salvation hence the kidnapping. He was there, on Thursday, playing his chosen role in the showdown, but his soul was already damned. Back in a loop ad infinitum until he learns remorse and lessons

MrGKB ...director/cinematographer Carl "Emile" Bessai's "Repeaters" is likely Arne "Red Scorpion" Olsen's best screenplay, which may or may not be saying much, given that the story is basically a riff on the Harold Ramis classic, "Groundhog Day." This incarnation (unsubtle allusion intended) follows three young addicts in rehab as they find themselves reliving one day over and over again no matter what they do. Check the trivia section of "Groundhog Day" for the source inspiration(s) of this premise. "Repeaters" pursues the dark side of such a situation; the three time-trapped protagonists revel in the baser pleasures of such freedom, and inevitably one of them goes too far. Once that happens, the rest of the story centers on the efforts of one of the others to put a halt to things. I won't spoil things any further in that regard.Most notable are the three leads, two of them reunited from the cast of "Final Destination 3:" Dustin "Slither" Milligan, Amanda "The Haunting in Connecticutt" Crew, and Richard "Cole" de Klerk; all turn in effectively nuanced performances, and I would expect that all three will have decent careers. The support is fine as well; don't miss Emily "Ginger Snaps" Perkins' cameo appearance; I wonder if that bit of casting was an in-joke. Bessai's camera-work is effective (as is his direction), Jeff "The Boondock Saints" Danna's score suits well, and even the pop soundtrack isn't too obnoxious. Interested viewers could do a lot worse, let me assure you. At least this is one Canadian indie I can't fault my local library for acquiring.