Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

jabrbi What do you do if you're drug addicts and you experience Groundhog Day? You squander all the opportunities that repeating a day can bring you and go completely psycho. You continue to show just how bad a human being you are until the day stops repeating and normality returns.There, I've saved you 90 minutes of your life.This deliberately drab, depressing film, takes the Groundhog Day premise and crams as much sadness into one day as possible - nothing good ever comes from the protagonists actions. Events simply spiral down into total chaos and disaster.Sadly, where the premise breaks down is that, although the protagonists remember the repeated day, they also do a lot of mind-altering drugs during the repeated day, and the question of how their memories are affected from one day to the next is never addressed. How can you restart a day when your previous memories are warped by alcohol, heroine or cocaine? When you wake up the day after flooding your body with chemicals with no continuing effects, how does that alter your view of the world? Only by addressing this question could this film have been a worthwhile contribution to the wash, rinse, repeat cycle of film making.In the end the cycles appear to stop repeating, time resumes it's normal course, no explanations are given, and nothing much has changed. What started the repeat cycle? Don't know. What stopped the repeat cycle? Don't know. What happened to the protagonists? Don't care.What happens next? Not depressed enough to want to find out.

WakenPayne Okay if you've read the premise you may think "Wow! That's Groundhog Day!" Well as someone who watched the movie - While I can see a lot of backing for that, it's less of a rip-off and more of a reworking of the premise to instead of being some quirky comedy with heart to instead be darker and some kind of symbolization of the life of a junkie.Okay so the premise, Three junkies in rehab are shocked electrically one night and repeat the same day over and over. At first they abuse this like mad, getting drunk, robbing places, breaking and entering the rehab (counselor/priest)'s home and trashing it. After making someone selling one of their sister's drugs they think "This might be taking it too far" and only 2 of them come round to this. The third one continues to rape, murder, stealing cars and whatnot with the mentality that he'll just wake up in his bed the next morning with no repercussions.Okay the acting is fantastic. They really pull through good performances in the movie and I will certainly be looking for more stuff that these people have been in. I mean even Richard De Klerk gets the role of a very generic character but even then he seems to pull off something and to his credit even though he's the generic 1 Dimensional bad guy he does look like he's having fun with it even though - yes he plays a monster.The Cinematography is excellent. I don't know if this is high or low budget for Canadian cinema but if it is then I will give the cinematography even more points. Every shot is beautifully set up and executed.If there was any major complaint with this movie (because most of them are nitpicks) is the last 20 minutes or so. So the cycle ends once Sonia and Kyle do what they want to do and either Kyle tells his sister he's sorry for beating her up or Sonia telling her father that she doesn't want to live with the scars of his sexual abuse anymore - Okay! These scenes are done fantastically. I just felt a kind of "That's it?" vibe from it because I know it symbolizes the life of a junkie and how it's a new day and they are improving their lives but I wouldn't have minded seeing them still do some good for other people like trying to stop that girl from jumping off the dam again. I just felt that it was something they could have done on almost every other day and didn't do it.So if you're open to a story that has been told but this time taking a COMPLETELY different angle from it (but unfortunately this will be compared to it) then this is for you. I can see why some people wouldn't get invested in it as much as I did. With that said the cinematography, the directing and most of the other elements are pretty well done. I would recommend this movie to anyone who can accept this as it's own unique thing without drawing any references to Groundhog Day.

dancenog Firstly can I say - I really enjoyed the movie. I thought it was well acted and gripping throughout. I even like the 'ending' which most people seemed to have a problem with.My two different opinions of the story arc:1/ The 3 of them are dead from the initial accidents. This would explain why upon repeating the days, the electrocutions didn't repeat - because this is something that was fixed/ they were dead/ and no way to change that. The 3 characters were in Purgatory or Limbo as they say. The Days are repeated so that the souls can learn of their errors or take stock of their lives. Burdens can be lifted with the journey to put things right. In effect, none of it (after the accident) took place in this conscious world but the soul was given a change to learn and move onwards or not. As for the character who went the wrong way - then he was made to face his worst fears over and over. On one hand, he died (but he was already dead) which signalled the end of the other 2 characters retrospective loops. Yes the end was in the sanitarium, not a prison. He woke to his fathers image as he was forced to feel that pain over and over again. He wasn't physically with his father at that point. The film opens with the quote 'Dont wait for the last judgement, it happens everyday' - IE its not about the end result but the journey in getting there.Other Opinion: After the accident, their days repeated for the reasons above - until wrongs acknowledged and put right. Lessons learned. So when the day moves on, its because all directions had been chosen. For Sonia and Kyle, they had acknowledged the wrongs and took steps to amend/move forward. For weeks his direction was the opposite one. At this point, weeks had no remorse and no accountability thus his soul was damned. He was forced on one hand to 'live' with his own torment (IE dad)over and over. On the other hand, he still had a part to play in Kyles salvation hence the kidnapping. He was there, on Thursday, playing his chosen role in the showdown, but his soul was already damned. Back in a loop ad infinitum until he learns remorse and lessons

MikesFilmTalk What would you do if you had a chance to relive just one day over and over? Try to change your destiny? Change the world? Change your life? In a 24 hour rewind you wouldn't think that there would be a huge opportunity to change very much. Three "twenty-somethings" find out just how life changing a repeated second chance is in this brilliant little film from Canada.Written by Arne Olsen (Relic Hunter, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie) and directed by Carl Bessai (Severed, Normal) Repeaters is the story of three inmates of a drug rehabilitation centre in Mission City. Kyle Halstead (Dustin Milligan), Sonia Logan (Amanda Crew) and Michael Weeks (Richard De Clerk) all hang out together and one event filled day they become caught in a time warp that results in them re-living that day repeatedly.The combination of great story-line and great performances by the lead actors made this spontaneous purchase of an 8 pound DVD turn into a real gem of a film.The publicity/marketing for the film states that the film is like Taken meets Groundhog Day. Now that sounds good, but in my humble opinion the film is more like Groundhog Day meets Flatliners.My only real problem with the film was the lead actors resemblance's to other actors and (in one case) to one of my first cousins. The most obvious one was Amanda Crew who looked so much like Jennifer Love Hewitt that I kept wondering how she'd managed to look so young. Obviously the film makers saw this resemblance as they never lost an opportunity to put a knit hat on her head that enhanced the likeness.Still, resemblances aside, the actors did a magnificent job in the film. The three of them interacted with each other and other characters in the film, brilliantly.The best thing about the film, was their evolving feelings about the repetitious day. Denial, acceptance, enjoyment, disillusionment. and realisation. Unfortunately, the two male characters had more of a story arch than the female lead, but despite the slight annoyance of this fact the film still delivered a pretty impressive punch.There is not a whole lot of information available on this 2010 Canadian independent film, but they do still have a website: Repeaters.If you get a chance, check this film out. This is the third Canadian film to completely blow me away and it's left me with a growing admiration for my "first cousins" and their creative ability.A real 5 star film about a supernatural event that will blow you away.