Memory Lane (Shawn Holmes, 2012)

Supposedly made for $300, which you don't need to be a film student to find a ridiculous claim, this is time-travel sci-fi somehow trying to splice together Primer, Source Code and Flatliners and end up with the pathos of The Time Traveller's Wife. This is a mistake as all of the above had real actors and something original to say about the device, for all their other failings.
Basically, a traumatised war veteran comes home to a small town, stops a girl killing herself , which she then does anyway, and spends the rest of the film grieving and having his friends kill him and bring him back to life so he can revisit the past to try out work out what actually happened to her. I suppose some credit ought to be given for an attempt to say something about the inability of the mind to accept shock, instead of just going off down an action route, and the editing and camerawork are rather impressive given the budget constraints, but it's to little avail. Although it might have helped if the love interest had not been such a gurning coquette or the lead such a sadsack, the end result would still have been a bit of a mess.

4/10