The hapless heroine Agnes reincarnated every time she makes the same mistake: falling in love with the wrong man.

Alice Lowe has taken quite some time (8 years) to follow up her dark and punchy pregnancy comedy horror movie ‘Prevenge’, but sadly ‘Timestalker’ is not a movie that was worth really waiting for. It has an ambitious premise to tell the story of one woman falling in love with one man over the course of different time periods, where she dies and is reincarnated everytime she falls in love, but it never really worked for me and despite a short 90 minute runtime, I was waiting for it to finish by the end.

Lowe stars in the central role herself as Agnes, initially as a poor woman in 1600s Scotland where she first sets eyes upon a handsome man called Alex (Aneurin Barnard), who is about to be brutally executed. While attempting to stop this from happening she falls and dies herself, setting off the reincarnation process that takes her to 1700s England, 1980s New York and other places as she dies and reincarnates repeatedly. Throughout each time period, the same cast members portray the ‘same’ characters in different roles and class statuses, including Nick Frost, Tanya Reynolds and Jacob Anderson, and Lowe attempts to use the different settings to say some universal things about love and the female experience in chasing the wrong or unattainable man.

I think my issue with ‘Timestalker‘ is it feels half baked, as if there’s a good idea simmering around that Lowe never quite worked out how to bring to life fully. The premise is fun, and I won’t say I didn’t laugh at some of the surrealist humour that is peppered throughout, but for the most part I thought this was a misfire that lacked much of the qualities that made ‘Prevenge’ such a gem.

Rating: 2/5

Directed By: Alice Lowe

Starring: Alice Lowe, Aneurin Barnard, Jacob Anderson, Tanya Reynolds, Nick Frost, Kate Dickie, Mike Wozniak and Dan Renton Skinner

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7340766/