The blurb for Redux Redux had me going instantly: A distraught woman (Michaela McManus) travels through parallel universes to kill her daughter's murderer over and over again. Along the way, she meets another teenager whom she fears will suffer the same fate - unless she interferes. There are shoot-outs and action scene wanna-bes, and some gruesome murder scenes.
Yet despite all its effort to come across as genuinely compelling, Redux Redux manages to get worse as it trods along. Its central flaw? By keeping the daughter off screen (whose murder propels the protagonist's goal), the filmmakers (Kevin and Matthew McManus) keep us at an arm's length, feeling not a thing when (I can only imagine) they wanted the audience to cheer with emphatic jubilation upon her murder's repeated demise.
Despite its hight RT rating (currently at 98%), Redux Redux is primarly an amateurish effort, through and through. Writing, acting, the cheap sci-fi concept: they're a short student film idea/execution stretched to feature length. I can't speak for most of the critics who're praising it, but if this was a made for TV (sci-fi channel, perhaps?) feature film, it'd be laughable. RT, you've just lost a shitload of credibility.
☆/1/2
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