The perennial time travel plot in sci-fi involves going back into the past to effect radical changes like killing Hitler or preventing the JFK assassination: big historical events with easy-to-grasp ramifications. This usually also allows for a good deal of expository padding as technobabble, concomitant FX budgets and at least one drawn-out scene of wonderment at the realisation of what has come to pass.Timecrimes, a low-key Spanish riff on the theme, forgoes all of the above in having a nobody stumble into a personal hell of his own making one afternoon, and set about rectifying matters with a matter-of-fact efficiency that reflects the pared-down structure of the screenplay and rewards any viewer all too familiar with the obligatory quality checkpoints of time travel storylines. It's a breath of fresh air in a genre in danger of going stale.
7/10
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