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Primer is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation and conduct experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces .. Read more

Starring	Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya
Director	Shane Carruth
Genres	Drama, Thriller

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Critic's review of Primer
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- Thinking inside the box: in an American garage, two jargon-jawing techies are working away on something mysterious... read more on Time Out
- 49020
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:19
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- - 90
  - 15
  If I had this machine I'd travel back in time 77 minutes and watch something else
  
  This MIGHT just be a great film if..
  
  ...if I had several weeks to spare in which I could watch it over and over again, while making notes, studying ... read more »
  
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- 387951
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - BH101
  - 35 reviews
  - Cambridge
  - 23 Nov 2006 at 10:43
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- - 1
  - 0
  Interesting concept. No production and little direction.
  
  I got the concept despite the terrible mumbling and overlapping communication. But this is a budget movie with no frills and no thrills. To put it bluntly. the ... read more »
  
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- - blondbloke
  - 8 reviews
  - 30 May 2012 at 23:09
- - 0
  - 0
  Needs a decoder
  
  We could not understand this! the dialogue was inaudible and inpenetrable! We did like the style and the concept of the film however. But we could not follow ... read more »
  
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- 1121118
- - a customer
  - 22 May 2012 at 22:40
- - 9
  - 3
  Absolute garbalage
  
  The only thing this film will do is make you feel little and stupid. I was lucky and fell asleep part way into it only to wake nearer the end to find myself ... read more »
  
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- 1117683
- - Tinyer
  - 1 review
  - 08 May 2012 at 22:38
- - 6
  - 39
  This movie packs an intellectual punch.
  
  One of the most creative films in the past decade, this movie packs an intellectual punch.
  
  It is hard work to follow but if you put the effort in ... read more »
  
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- - Hillman
  - 1 review
  - 19 Apr 2012 at 22:14
- - 20
  - 8
  Don't bother!
  
  I switched it off after 15 minutes, I found it utterly boring and almost incomprehensible. Low budget film making at its worst.
  
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- 1098528
- - a customer
  - 02 Mar 2012 at 20:58
- - 26
  - 8
  Pretentious nonsense
  
  I found this film highly pretentious, its seemed to cater to the needs of those who like to watch films that are quite hard to follow to simply point out that ... read more »
  
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- 1075580
- - a customer
  - 23 Dec 2011 at 11:04
- - 2
  - 9
  Got the gist.
  
  I like the way it was filmed. Thats it!! Its like the film had frames taking out to made it hard to follow, but i got the gist.
  
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- - Wackob
  - 1 review
  - 21 Dec 2011 at 11:13
- - 14
  - 16
  Very confusing film
  
  Try as I did, I just could not follow this film. Found it confusing, confusing, confusing, confusing. Maybe I'm just a bit thick!!
  
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- 1074483
- - a customer
  - 18 Dec 2011 at 21:51
- - 43
  - 6
  A film for the try-hard pretentious....
  
  This is the worst kind of pretentious nonsense you can hope to find. The film has gained a cult following for one simple reason....people like to pretend they&#... read more »
  
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- 1074280
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - JohnnyMOT
  - 26 reviews
  - Huddersfield
  - 18 Dec 2011 at 00:59
- - 1
  - 20
  Brilliant, but not an easy watch
  
  Very good. Incredible script, without the awkward obvious exposition of pretty much every other film out there.
  
  Excellent piece of smart sci-fi. ... read more »
  
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- 1071003
- - MCBoom
  - 1 review
  - 07 Dec 2011 at 07:04
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- - 90
  - 15
  If I had this machine I'd travel back in time 77 minutes and watch something else
  
  This MIGHT just be a great film if..
  
  ...if I had several weeks to spare in which I could watch it over and over again, while making notes, studying ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 387951
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - BH101
  - 35 reviews
  - Cambridge
  - 23 Nov 2006 at 10:43
- - 59
  - 1
  Pretentious, moi?
  
  I find it interesting how so many people are praising how this was put together on such a low budget. The result as far as I could see is a disjointed, badly ... read more »
  
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- 426945
- - a customer
  - Cheshire
  - 04 Apr 2007 at 09:58
- - 57
  - 0
  highbrow tedium..
  
  as someone who really loves good sci-fi i was looking forward to this what a disappointment it turned out to be,unbelievably tedious,and more than bit boring... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - leeds.u.k
  - 05 May 2007 at 19:29
- - 56
  - 3
  Pretentious
  
  A bit like The Blair Witch Project in that not very much happens in the film but it is edited and the viewer manipulated to make you think something did...read more »
  
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- - angstvondunkel
  - East Lothian
  - 24 Apr 2006 at 20:17
- - 43
  - 6
  A film for the try-hard pretentious....
  
  This is the worst kind of pretentious nonsense you can hope to find. The film has gained a cult following for one simple reason....people like to pretend they&#... read more »
  
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  - JohnnyMOT
  - 26 reviews
  - Huddersfield
  - 18 Dec 2011 at 00:59
- - 36
  - 3
  Not to be rented
  
  We have no idea what this movie is all about and were completelly lost as to where its heading to.
  
  I think we still will not be able to understand it... read more »
  
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- - emirisgr8
  - Hertfordshire
  - 27 May 2006 at 15:14
- - 36
  - 5
  waste of my time
  
  Brilliant or awful ..... I vote awful. Hard to follow, you need to concentrate *all* the time. Maybe I blinked and missed the good parts....
  
  I found ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - uk
  - 13 May 2006 at 21:51
- - 34
  - 4
  confusing?
  
  Primer has been lauded as ' the new Donnie Darko'... it isn't. Time travel is the only common thread between the two so do not watch it under this ... read more »
  
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- - breatheasier
  - 27 reviews
  - BRIGHTON
  - 16 Mar 2007 at 20:28
- - 33
  - 2
  BORING BORING BORING
  
  Sorry but I have to say that this was one of the most "unexplained" films that I have ever seen.
  
  How I held out to the end - beats me !read more »
  
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- - YOLLEL
  - 28 reviews
  - STOURBRIDGE
  - 06 Jul 2006 at 21:10
- - 29
  - 3
  what?
  
  I watched this film through right to the end, however it was I think the most confusing film I have ever watched.
  
  The story as far as i saw it was, ... read more »
  
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- - pooty
  - 11 reviews
  - london
  - 29 May 2006 at 13:34

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Critics' reviews
- Thinking inside the box: in an American garage, two jargon-jawing techies are working away on something mysterious... read more on Time Out
- 49020
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:19
- Donnie Darko for grownups... A glorious rebuke to a dumbed down movie world
- 40136
- - The Guardian
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:24
- It's as if David Lynch had directed Memento
- 40137
- - Total Film
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:24
- Enthralling
- 40135
- - Empire
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:24
- Compelling
- 40138
- - Uncut
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:24

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  Primer is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation and conduct experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current ...