An insomniac on a regular cocktail of drugs takes a new one as a cure. Instead, it sends his consciousness into an even more fragmented state, eventually resulting in him time-travelling involuntarily across the course of recent past and future days. His attempts to fix a catastrophic outcome that has already happened and will happen are hampered by his lack of control over the jumps in time.
There's the seed of an idea here, but the genre of time travel has to be treated with scrupulous attention to detail and internal logic, and Altered Hours fails badly on this count. There's drama, including some vague ambitions to draw parallels between the protagonist's situation and class A drug addiction, but scarcely any cohesion, and so the end result is a rather hopeless mess.
4/10
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