#Arq movie 2016 rating free#

#Arq movie 2016 rating free#

Writer/director Tony Elliott’s first feature, ARQ is a quirky, sincere sci-fi drama that is refreshingly free of the kind of initial setting up period that would normally introduce us to the characters and their surroundings before letting them loose in the overall plot.

Not wanting to let either side get their hands on the ARQ, Renton tries to figure out a way of escaping the time loop, saving himself and Hannah, and foiling the plans of the Torus Corporation and the Bloc. The intruders, and Hannah, are members of a rebel group called The Bloc, and Renton is convinced that they’re after the ARQ and the need for scrips is incidental. He formulates another approach but this backfires as well, and so on, until one by one, Hannah and the intruders become aware that they’re all stuck in a time loop, one that lasts for around three hours and fourteen minutes, endlessly repeating itself. The cause is a device, the ARQ (pronounced Ark), that Renton was working on for the Torus Corporation, and which he stole from them when he realised that its properties as a perpetual motion machine could be used as a weapon. It’s early in the morning… and his predicament is beginning all over again. Renton hands over the scrips but is then shot and killed. But she doesn’t, and is revealed to be in collusion with the men. While he turns on the system, he waits for Hannah to release the gas. Aware that, somehow, this has already happened, he forms a plan to kill the intruders by releasing cyanide gas into the ventilation system. The man finds a way to free himself and the woman. The home invaders leave the couple to think about it. When he wakes for the second (fourth?) time, he and Hannah are tied to chairs in the basement. The men are threatening, but will leave if the man gives them his “scrips”, credit notes they believe he has a large supply of. Suddenly, men wearing air filtration masks burst in when Renton resists them he’s rendered unconscious. It’s early in the morning and there’s a woman (whose name is Hannah) sleeping next to him. In the future, the man (whose name is Renton) wakes with a start. The man attempts to escape and is killed in the process. The men are threatening, but will leave if the man gives them his “scrips”, credit notes they believe he has a large supply of. When he wakes for the second time, he and the woman are tied to chairs in the basement. Suddenly, men wearing air filtration masks burst in when the man resists them he’s rendered unconscious. It’s early in the morning and there’s a woman (Taylor) sleeping next to him. In the future, a man (Amell) wakes with a start.

Cast: Robbie Amell, Rachael Taylor, Shaun Benson, Gray Powell, Jacob Neayem, Adam Butcher, Tantoo Cardinal