The problem with 57 Seconds, though, is that it’s so poorly shot and thinly plotted that you’re always aware of just how sub-par the film is.

This engaging sci-fi ride puts a new twist on the time-travel conceit. In 57 Seconds, time travel is used more like a drug instead of a mathematical concept...

Everything about the characters is basic, from their motivations to what informs those motivations and their personalities, to boot.

Here’s a movie about time travel that feels like a whistlestop tour of every previous movie about time travel ever made, though one doesn’t imagine the irony is intentional.