The fantasy blockbuster Das Zeiträtsel is one of the sad examples where a filmmaker was allowed to shoot her first blockbuster with a big budget after smaller films and then failed mercilessly at the box office.
At Disney+ you can stream the work of Selma and The 13th director Ava DuVernay, the bombastic sights with a touching story connects. Unfortunately, the film was a complete flop at the time.
That’s what the fantasy adventure The Time Riddle is all about
In the plot of the film, the physicist Dr. Alex Murry (Chris Pine) and father of Meg Murry (Storm Reid) disappeared without a trace. One night, the girl who is considered an outsider is visited by mysterious strangers (Reese Witherspoon, Oprah Winfrey and Mindy Kaling) who bring Meg, her brother and Meg’s boyfriend together extraordinary journey to follow in the footsteps of their missing father.
For $ 100 million, the director should make a blockbuster for the whole family. The result is a conceivably intimate story on a large scale, in which strange worlds with opulent visuals at the limits of physics cast a spell.
Similar to Christopher Nolan with his sci-fi epic Interstellar, DuVernay also creates a magical rift that allows the characters to move between space and time. The time puzzle changes often from child-friendly and shallow to dramatic seriousness and drug-trip-like visual violence. On the verge of fantasy kitsch, however, Das Zeiträtsel is at its core a story about love as an almighty force that overcomes all obstacles.
The time puzzle became a big failure
After bad reviews (only 42 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), the fantasy blockbuster unfortunately went under at the box office. The Time Puzzle played on a budget of $100 million only $132 million worldwide a. This makes it a big flop.
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