This is one of those movies that you have great hopes for being deep, revealing, and compelling, but in the end turns out to be full of empty promises. Tree of Life and Prometheus are a few other recent titles where I felt the same "I've been ripped off!" feeling after.

To sum it all up (SPOILERS): every main character is not only the same person (Jane, John, the time-traveling agent), but also their own parents through hermaphrodite/self-reproduction. Yeah, messed up. Deep? Not really. Not only that, the agent is attempting to foil a murdering antagonist "Fizzle Bomber" from the past, who ALSO turns out to be himself.

So, recap: no less than all FIVE of the characters in this film are supposedly the same person. The purpose? Near as I can tell, simply to announce to the viewer: "HA, DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING, DID YA? GOT YOU!"

Not only that, there are multiple plot holes, for example: how does Jane fail to recognize herself, supposedly "as a male" John, but the only other noticeable change to be different clothes and shorter hair?! How did John fail to recollect that Jane's vanishing lover as himself? How did the agent fail to recognize that he was having a hand-to- hand brawl with HIMSELF as the Fizzle Bomber (must have been the ponytail, those are QUITE disguising)? And most of all: HOW CAN YOU HAVE SEX WITH YOURSELF TO PRODUCE YOURSELF, TO BE KIDNAPPED BY YOURSELF?!?! How? "Time travel, my dear, stupid, stupid viewer. Never mind that it's not plausible, just swallow it and admit you didn't see any of that coming." What is the point of it all? To prove PREDESTINATION (see what they did there?), of course. Do you believe it? Perhaps...if everyone is as ignorant and unobservant as this person, the main character(s).

I am extremely disappointed in this movie. I was expecting a time- traveling caper with a plot around circumventing a mastermind serial killer, not a plodding story about a self-impressed, embittered brat, who sees the world to blame for her entire predicament despite later resigning/sentencing herself/himself to it for no reason other than "it's for the best." I will admit the mysterious storytelling, at least in the beginning, was entertaining and exciting. The sets and costuming were perfect. Unfortunately, they don't make up for the great big: "PHOOEY ON YOU!!" to the viewer revealed in the end.

This is one of those movies you WILL think about about you see it, but only to anxiously spout "BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!" And you WILL BE right, notwithstanding other reviewers who are for some reason perplexed enough to instead extol this film's supposed brilliance.

Apparently a two-inch puddle that seems "deep" can drown the most willing...