i ' ll follow you down
i’ll follow you down opens june 20 in vancouver, calgary, toronto, ottawa and montreal .
although it mostly falls flat, i' ll follow you down does deliver an ending that serves as a satisfying payoff .
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labeling “i’ll follow you down” as a “time travel thriller” sets a certain expectation for action - oriented suspense that is genetically excluded from the movie’s dna. “i’ll follow you down” is intriguing not as saturday matinee science - fiction, but as a metaphor about consequences that come from living a life of unbalanced commitments and conflicted goals .
i' ll follow you down is the thinking person' s time travel tale, a philosophical drama that poses a what - if question that carries surprising emotional heft .
mehta doesn' t summon the most riveting tale with i' ll follow you down, but his intentions are pure, striving to rework the subgenre from a more human standpoint .
ponderous in spots and not as smoothly crafted as it could be, i' ll follow you down is also held back by osment' s performance, which never seems comfortable or convincing ...
ambitious but clunky ,
i' ll follow you down
is not quite the picture to be haley joel osment' s post - adolescent breakthrough, but it is a step in the right direction .
lacking the imaginative stylistic flourishes of such far more ambitious, similarly themed films as primer and inception, i’ll follow you down seems best suited for undemanding younger audiences for whom the idea of reconnecting with a lost parent will have an undeniable appeal. despite the fine performances by the lead actors - - anderson is particularly moving as the emotionally devastated mother - - i’ll follow you down doesn’t have the cinematic heft to live up to its ambitious premise .
one could describe the film as a drama about family masquerading as a sci - fi mystery, but that is an illusion the film itself does not personally propagate. anyone going in under the assumption of seeing an extravagantly designed “time travel thriller” may be disappointed to discover that “i’ll follow you down” is more quietly introspective .
what does that mean exactly? it means that there are no good guys and bad guys arguing over flapping butterfly wings or high stakes consequences about killing dictators in their infancy. “i’ll follow you down” is more melodrama than mystery with only a slightly futuristic touch to springboard an exploration of themes regarding the worth of idealistic values .
richie mehta’s i’ll follow you down revolves around a different kind of love. the star of the film is erol, a nine - year - old boy whose entire life changes in 2000 when his father, gabriel (rufus sewell), travels to princeton for a conference on theoretical physics, only to vanish without a trace .
haley joel osment leads the cast in the sci - fi thriller i' ll follow you down. years after his father mysteriously disappeared, erol learns that he was working on a time - travel devise and continues his father' s research in hopes of finding a way to fix the past. co - starring gillian anderson, victor garber, and rufus sewell, the supporting cast is quite strong. but it' s up to osment to carry the film, and he lacks both the range and the depth that the role calls for. still, the time - travel premise and the moral questions that arise are quite intriguing. yet despite the rich material, i' ll follow you down ends up being rather boring and monotonous .
mehta lets the story play out at its own pace; there is little of the frantic, ticking - clock urgency that often propels such stories, though there is an unexpectedly explosive climax in which a tough decision must be made. i’ll follow you down is the thinking person’s time travel tale, a philosophical drama that poses a what - if question that carries surprising emotional heft .
the movie succeeds because of its cast, but also because its core concept is so strong. weighing the benefits of accepting what cannot be changed versus chasing an ideal only presumed to be preferable is presented as a relatable idea using science - fiction as a frame for entertainment. ultimately, it is this unique approach to a traditional time travel dilemma that makes “i’ll follow you down” absorbing as a thoughtful thriller .
great review! i found your comment about mit very funny, especially since i graduated from one of umd’s science departments .
noticed an error in your review…. you said: “erol’s girlfriend finds a picture of a guy in a suit, lying face down in a pool of blood …. . ”
a lot of theories are put forward as to why he might want to do this. the one i find most plausible is that gabriel bought a giant foam finger, went to albert einstein’s house, rang the doorbell and, when einstein opened the door, did a little victory dance, shook the foam finger in einstein’s face and sang “i did it! i did it! i unified physics! you’re so square, you can’t even add! ”
devoid of intent to confuse or to dazzle by being too smart for its own good, “i’ll follow you down” has a straightforward storytelling purpose in mind. erol’s girlfriend grace wonders, if erol affects the present by “correcting” the past, can he guarantee they will end up together in an altered timeline? is risking what he has now worth pursuing the uncertainty of how he assumes things “should” be? it is the same internal conflict that consumed erol’s father. and that seesaw battle between advancing a personal goal versus honoring obligations has an impact neither man fully considers .
thanks for reading the review. i cannot actually recall anymore. it seemed to me that everything was fixed, but i may have missed some subtle clues .
: well, if you don' t leave now, you' re going to miss your flight, and then he' s going to be late for school. come on, come on. games up .
: yes, ma' am. come on. i have a plane to catch .
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“i’ll follow you down” wins back a great deal of those lost points through pure star power alone. the scope of the story may not be grand, but the cast certainly is. the film is filled with familiar faces that may not be as prolific as they were in years past, but they are no less talented than they have always been. erol’s mother calls for an actress who can say more with a look than with a word, making gillian anderson a fitting choice for the part. haley joel osment is superbly solid in a mild - mannered role. anything less than exceptional casting and the film’s faults would be harder to overlook, but the reliable talent roster ensures an engaging watch .
jermaine fowler and omari hardwick of sorry to bother you take us back in time to the worst jobs of their careers .
unfortunately, the director had some film left over, and, instead of returning it to the dealer for a full refund, minus stocking fee, he decided to keep filming. first, erol’s child dies in the womb. i almost stopped at this point because it had gotten annoyingly depressing. if i want to be depressed i read cnn (which is depressing both for its content and style). i watch movies to be entertained. i was definitely not being entertained. at this point, i was just hoping the director was getting professional help, because the herbal tea was not working for him .
the miscarriage suddenly frees up erol from not wanting to mess with the current time line – because, deep down, he doesn’t really care about his girl - friend. so erol builds a time machine. he even smiles once when he does this. that startled me so much i rewound and re - watched that scene four times. interestingly, erol practices target shooting with a hand gun while he does this. i figure he thinks, “what if things go wrong and i end up in the triassic instead of in princeton in 1945? better learn how to shoot in case i run into some dinosaurs. ”
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any how, lots of diagrams are drawn and time lines are drawn and so on and so forth, and i’m getting anxious to see the time machine, because we are more than half - way through the movie and no time machine yet. around this time, erol’s girlfriend finds a picture of a guy in a suit, lying face down in a pool of blood. there is a pocket watch next to him. she immediately jumps to the conclusion that it’s erol’s dad who was a time traveller and died in the past. i don’t know. if i had seen the picture, i would be more cautious with the time travel angle, since, after all, you can’t see the guy’s face and there are a million pocket watches like that and a million more murders like that in new jersey every day .
there are some loose ends that are left untied, but at this point, i’m exhausted and have stopped caring and, indeed, am feeling a bit let down by the ending. 3 stars out of 5. one star docked because of erol and one star for not knowing when to stop filming .
i was hoping, after having slaved through the dark and dreary scenes, that the movie would end up being a commentary on how we should live our lives as we have been given, instead of fantasizing about what ifs and how things could have been different and better. instead, the ending was a commentary that said, “if you have a time machine, you can fix everything except a few loose ends which one hopes the audience won’t notice” .
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i know this all sounds impossible – three genius physicists in the same family? – but let the film take you along and what results is a metaphysical conundrum both quieter and deeper than most time - travels movies offer. never mind killing hitler, or hordes of aliens, or even your own grandfather; what are the results when a devoted family man is removed from the spacetime continuum ?
once, just once, i’d like a movie to indicate to us that a character is super smart by showing them getting admission to somewhere like georgia tech, or the univ. of maryland or ohio state or tufts. i mean mit is a good school, but are the rest of us, who went to those other schools, just chopped liver ?
sounds cool. on the other hand, i didn’t like primer overmuch. certainly not enough to give it the 3 - 4 viewings everyone said it takes to make sense of it .
no. erol is the one who found the newspaper article with the photo you described. his girlfriend googled the author of the book (“wormholes”) he was reading and saw that the author was into time travel. thus concluding the erol was working on time travel .
this is another one of those movies where the director should have paid full price and bought the better lights. it’s a time travel movie with some shades of “12 monkeys”. it’s good but i almost stopped watching, because it got too depressing, dark (literally and figuratively) and i didn’t see any time machine, though they kept talking about it. the ending, though, is happy and paradoxically the tameness kind of spoils it .
still unable to cope with her husband’s disappearance, marika kills herself by overdosing on prescription medication after learning that her son is not attending m. i. t. because he is afraid to leave her. following her death, erol agrees to help sal complete gabe’s research .
we skip the next decade – yes, this is time travel, but not an exciting one – and see erol, all grown up. erol as been looking kind of familiar to us. his wooden mannerism and complete inability to convey emotion finally gives him away as the boy - robot in spielberg’s movie “a. i” .
in the year 2000, theoretical physics researcher gabriel whyte says goodbye to his wife marika and his nine - year - old son erol as he leaves toronto to spend three days at princeton for a science conference. when gabe does not return as scheduled, marika enlists the help of her university professor father sal to track him down, but gabe seemingly vanished without a trace. on his bus to school, erol charms his classmate grace by presenting her with a lego car depicting them together with space reserved for a baby .
any how, erol, attributes grandpa’s theories to alzheimers, forbids him from mentioning it to gillian, who’s gone off her meds and is all weepy and moping for dad. there are more and more night shots, the lighting gets dimmer and dimmer, and i can’t turn my mac’s display brightness up any more. one night, gillian decides to go back on her meds and takes all her anti - depressants at once and dies .
overlong story short, erol builds a time machine, travels to the past, tells his father everything and then shoots himself. this part was a little unexpected, but i was so depressed at this time, it was a bit of a relief to have mr. wooden out of the way. gabriel comes back home using the time machine and every one is alive and young erol is still friends with the little girl who – in the other timeline at least – became his girl friend .
the director, i think, would have done well to stop at this point. he could have done a little light editing and then sent the film off to cannes where it probably would would have gotten decent reviews and would have the dignity of having an original thought dealing with the paradox of changing the past and how it affects the present and the emotional and personal aspects of those involved, especially if they know the time line is going to be erased. or rather, if some one they love is going to jump out of the time line and vanish into another, leaving them all alone in this one .
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indie science fiction with a rare humanism, a scientific and emotional mystery with a solution hollywood wouldn’t dare go anywhere near .
in the u. s. and canada — did the trick beautifully. this is almost the movie that
wanted to be — kinda maybe, if it could have broken out of the cheap hollywood trope in which fx trump emotion — an exploration of the human impact that time - travel could potentially have. there are next to no fx here, and not even any new sfnal ideas. what there is is a fresh and powerful story about how a couple of wild ideas we’re already familiar with — time travel and the alternate timelines it might spawn — affect people who are actually living with these as realities .
this is closer to * primer * than * project almanac, * but four viewings will not be required. one will do nicely .
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this thematically ambitious sci - fi thriller doesn' t live up to its intriguing premise. twitter
haley joel osment plays a young scientist determined to go back in time in search of his missing father in richie mehta' s sci - fi tale .
osment, all grown - up some 15 years after his oscar - nominated turn in the sixth sense, plays erol, a brilliant 21 - year - old budding scientist whose life was forever altered by the mysterious disappearance of his physicist father gabe (rufus sewell) during a business trip to princeton, new jersey. although his mother (anderson) never recovered emotionally from the event, erol has at least moved on, enjoying a committed relationship with his childhood sweetheart grace (susanna fournier) .
twelve years after his father disappeared, erol finds himself once again caught up in the mystery when, after a traumatic event involving his mother, his scientist grandfather finally reveals his theory as to what happened. he believes that his son - in - law traveled back in time through a wormhole in an effort to make contact with albert einstein in 1946, only to be murdered during a mugging. having access to gabe’s papers containing his theories, he proposes to use the same method to go back in time himself and reverse the tragic course of events. the initially skeptical erol insists on going on the mission himself, much to the consternation of the now pregnant grace who believes that any efforts to change the course of history will result in prevention of their relationship .
the potentially meaty sci - fi tale is undercut by director - screenwriter mehta’s laid - back approach, resulting in many tedious scenes involving erol and his grandfather engaging in convoluted scientific discussions and tiresome philosophical debates about the ramifications of traveling through time. even the film’s climactic scenes, involving erol’s experiences when he finally embarks on the fateful journey, lack the intended dramatic punch .
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after the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home .
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after her genius husband disappears from a routine business trip without a trace the next 12 years becomes so much to bear... but when her son comes of age and is wooed by mit, his ability to unlock the mystery of quantum physics begins to unravel the mystery of time .
when the professor dismisses his class and is talking to his grandson, a bashful male student hurries between them and surreptitiously places an apple on the professor' s desk. this is an inside reference to a similar bit in' raiders of the lost ark' .
when erol opens his phone to read marika' s text immediately after receipt, it is in his phone' s outbox .
last line after the final end credits :
we have achieved the day .
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writer - director richie mehta' s characters aren' t especially thoughtful. like their creator, they make massive leaps in logic before they do anything .
indie science fiction with a rare humanism, a scientific and emotional mystery with a solution hollywood wouldn' t dare go anywhere near .
... a disappointingly half - baked endeavor that feels, for the most part, like a padded - out episode of the outer limits .
this sturdy sci - fi drama admirably poses some big questions, but doesn' t possess the dramatic firepower to answer them effectively .
directed by richie mehta. with gillian anderson, haley joel osment, rufus sewell, victor garber. after the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home .
but, like the movie, let me start at the beginning. we are introduced to a glamorous lady, a british dude and their son. the lady turns out to be gillian anderson, who has retired from the x - files to go be a suburban housewife and the british dude is a theoretical physicist, a profession which is apparently back in fashion in the movies, despite the fact that, following the post - cold - war funding cuts, most people doing theoretical physics can’t afford to own a home, certainly not one in the posh suburbs of toronto .
the british dude (gabriel) goes for a conference and never returns. before he leaves for the conference erol, their son, pulls an old fashioned pocket watch out of his dad’s waistcoat. we know this pocket watch is going to be a major plot device later because when something so inconsequential is commented on at the beginning of a movie, it usually turns out to be very important later on. plus, the pocket watch is on the dvd cover .
gillian deals with the disappearance of her husband with medication, erol deals with it by being wooden. gillian’s father, also a physicist, studies gabriel’s notebooks and comes to the conclusion gabriel has built a time machine and gone into the past to speak with albert einstein .
erol goes to grandpa and woodenly asks him if all this time machine thing is on the level. grandpa, his eyes full of tears, says yes, the time machine story is real. erol woodenly begins work on the time machine. erol is wicked smart. we know this because he comes to class late, doesn’t do any home work, but still aces every test grandpa (who’s his high - school teacher too) gives him. normally we would suspect nepotism, but here we decide that erol’s just very smart. we also know he’s very smart because he’s gotten admission to mit but he’s not decided yet if he wants to go because he’s not a red sox’s fan .
while erol is building the time machine we learn that for all his wicked smarts he doesn’t know how to use a condom, because his girlfriend is now pregnant. at this point the movie finally gets interesting. erol’s girlfirend is quite good at conveying emotions and moods, and poses a very good question: if erol does build a time machine and erases the current time line, which he and grandpop consider to be a mistake, what happens to them? does he think his relationship with his girlfriend is a mistake? is the baby a mistake ?
it was part of the equation to kill himself for in killing himself his death ensured his father’s return. his father’s returning would undo his suicide. hope this helps .
my favorite plot hole was that the dad then gets to bring an advanced ipad to the present 10 years before it is released, hopefully with some other information about the future securely stored inside. or does the pad go “poof” because it existed in a timeline that no longer existed ?
sal goes back in time to 1946 to confront his father, who also had gone back in time 12 years earlier. they meet in a princeton, nj bar, the father wants to meet albert einstein. sal shows him an ipad with an old newspaper clip reveals dad had been mugged and killed and never returned. the mother had killed herself in despair at the husband' s disappearance. sal pleads with him to choose family over his mission. sal also mentions his wife grace had miscarried, all would be set right if the father returned. dad says he will be careful but wants to stay. sal suddenly pulls a gun and shoots himself in the head. dad then arrives back home, from his
business trip
, to his wife and young sal .
devastated by the sudden disappearance of his father as a child, a gifted science student grows up to discover that the event may have been linked to time travel .
by the year 2012, erol has become a gifted college student in a romantic relationship with grace. his grandfather sal tells erol that he found gabe’s research and discovered that gabe was investigating time - travel using a stabilized wormhole. sal believes that gabe traveled back to 1946 to meet with albert einstein. sal asks for erol’s help in recreating the science so that they can prevent gabe’s disappearance and alter their current timeline for the better. erol dismisses the idea .
because the work consumes all of his time, grace eventually learns of erol’s intent to go back in time. she worries that if he changes the past, they may not end up together in an altered timeline. as the argument between them escalates, grace reveals that she is pregnant. when she threatens to leave, erol agrees to abandon the wormhole research to concentrate on his relationship with grace and start a family .
grace loses the baby. convinced that the universe is guiding him towards realizing an idealized life instead of the crumbling one he has, erol decides to complete the time travel research with sal. from an archived newspaper clipping, erol discovers a story about an unidentified man found shot in an alley in 1946. erol assumes it was gabe since he sees his father’s pocket watch lying on the ground beside the body in the photo. sal and erol reconstruct the time machine and erol goes back to 1946 .
erol confronts his father in 1946 and reveals his identity, along with what the consequences were of gabe having disappeared in 2000. gabe agrees to return, but only after meeting einstein and finishing his research. to motivate his father to choose family over his work, erol suddenly shoots himself in the head. gabe returns to the year 2000 and greets his wife and son on the doorstep of their home .
in the year 2000, theoretical researcher gabriel whyte says goodbye to his wife marika and his nine - year - old son erol as he leaves for a three - day visit to princeton university. no one ever sees him again. by 2012, erol has grown into a gifted young scientist himself and goes on to a relationship with his childhood sweetheart grace. meanwhile, marika still grieves for her lost love with a regular cocktail of prescription pills and persistent depression .
when tragedy continues striking at what remains of the whyte family, erol’s university professor grandfather sal posits a possible solution. having discovered gabe’s research secreted away in a dim basement, sal comes to believe that gabe neither died nor disappeared. he went back in time to visit albert einstein in 1946. as crazy as that sounds, sal needs erol’s mathematical mind to puzzle out the physics involved in recreating the wormhole experiment and bringing gabe back to change the present .
like many time travel stories, the script asks viewers to close their eyes and hum during certain scenes. a key detail involves a newspaper clipping from 1946 showing a dead man from behind in possession of the whyte family pocket watch. it is dubious that a news story about an unidentified man would specifically not show the man’s face and of course, if the photo did, the entire plotline would go up in a smoke. it is just one of those necessary conveniences that a story like this has to cheat in order to make things work .
other clichés vary in how forgivable they are. frankly, the ending is too abrupt to be fully satisfying, even though it absolutely works story - wise as a sensible resolution. victor garber’s grandfather character has a go - nowhere subplot involving a possible romance with his tea - fetching secretary while erol and his girlfriend enjoy a hollywood - fabricated childhood courtship, albeit a very cute one. (it takes a black heart to not smile over the lego car, no matter how contrived it is as a plot device. )
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in the movies, and to a lesser extent in literature, time travel is tightly bound to notions of romantic love. think of christopher reeve willing himself back to 1912 to fall in love in
mehta spends some time in 2000 showing us what a great husband and father gabriel is. when the film shifts to the near - present, the now grown erol (haley joel osment; yes, he grew up too !) is doing his best to care for his mother (gillian anderson), who never fully recovered from the loss. he’s also considering marrying his childhood sweetheart, grace (susanna fournier), although clearly the trauma of losing his dad continues to weigh heavily on him .
erol’s life gets another jolt, however, when his father - in - law, sal (victor garber), informs him that gabriel may not have vanished off the face of the earth – merely off the face of the clock. sal has partially recreated gabriel’s time machine from notes he left behind, and needs erol’s help to finish the thing so they can go back to 1946 and rescue him. (like many would - be time travellers, gabriel went to see albert einstein. )
sal is certain he knows the answer. “none of us should be living this life, ” he tells erol. and if they can undo gabriel’s trip, “the last 12 years of our lives will go back to what they should be. ” but grace is terrified. if her husband rewrites the last 12 years, they might not be together anymore. all he had to do was bump into mcadams sometime since 2000 and all bets are off .
and so we have filial duty writ large, with erol forced to decide between moving forward in an unchanged, fatherless present, or risking his nascent family to rescue the old man and repair his nuclear family. in the words of an earlier time traveler, this is heavy .
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when gabriel (rufus sewell), a scientist, mysteriously disappears during one of his business trips, his wife (gillian anderson) and son (haley joel osment) struggle to cope. years later, a mysterious discovery might be the key to bringing gabriel home .
canadian connection: partly filmed in toronto and hamilton, ontario. several cast members are canadian .
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i 'll follow you down is a 2013 canadian techno-thriller written and directed by richie mehta . outside the united states and canada , the film was released as continuum . 
i'll follow you down is a 2013 canadian techno-thriller written and directed by richie mehta. outside the united states and canada, the film was released as continuum.
i'll follow you down is a 2013 canadian techno-thriller written and directed by richie mehta. outside the united states and canada, the film was released as continuum.