Redux Redux

This film has a really interesting premise - even in a world overrun with multiverse shenanigans thanks to the MCU and Rick and Morty. A mother chases her daughter's killer through infinite parallel universes and kills him in each. Violently, gruesomely, this is revenge fantasy extrapolated to infinity. One could assume that such a campaign would perhaps end in forgiveness - that seeing a person commit the same act a million times renders it outside of freewill. Or perhaps the avenging mother grows to love the killing so much that she and the killer become kindred souls. Or perhaps it becomes just another job, a routine engaged in with as much joy as someone waking up in the morning to go to work.

Redux Redux doesn't go to any of those spaces. But It doesn’t shy away from the violence - to the point where I think the siblings that made this film wanted to show off their special effects chops. And it doesn't shy away from the consequences of that violence.

The film gets a bit uneven in it's construction and pacing - especially when Mia shows up.

The dialogue typically hinges more towards ‘play’ than ‘film’ - where the audiences distance requires that characters tell more than show and everyone is just a bit too well written for spoken word.

While the dialogue holds the film back, the story's premise really does a good job of showing that violence doesn't fix anything (with one exception) and that while Irene might lecture about the importance of not talking to strangers, all of the good things that happen to her or Mia come not from violence but from talking.


All in all a good job with a good premise, some really sharp direction choices unevenly applied and some too-well written dialogue hedging on telling rather than showing holds is back from being great.