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The story is really gripping, and I liked the actors a lot, they really make it look realistic and believable. That's the main thing I liked about it, that they keep me waiting to see how the next loop is going to change. That's why I usually hate this type of movie: because they don't get the science right, they don't have a suspenseful story and they do a lot of illogical stuff just so they could wrap things up nicely.

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Of course, it is a 'Groundhog day' type of movie that has been done before, but I've never seen it done so well. I've never done it before, but this time I had to.

To the point, though: I've just finished watching ARQ, literally one minute ago, and I didn't even wait for the credits to run, I was already on IMDb signing in to write a review. Then Netflix happens and suddenly you can watch movies like ARQ. It seems that nobody wants to make good movies anymore, CGI is king, and viewers are expected to like whatever is released by the greedy studios. Everything I've watched from them turns out to be very good, which is amazing because I was beginning to believe that the era of movies is over. Would this not mean that the war has been raging for an unknown amount of time and Sonny would have called in for extraction of the ARK probably thousands of times? Wouldn't the dudes at Torus be like 'Yo dudes, Sonny keeps calling in for extraction like every 3 hours, shouldn't we send the Droideker and see what's up?' Overall, I didn't mind this film and it's certainly not the worst film you'll ever watch, but too many questions are left unanswered and the major plot hole is annoying. The thing I could not get past is that the loop only exists within a certain radius of the machine, so therefore everything outside of the loop continues as normal. Unfortunately as the movie proceeds you do start to question the choices made by the lead characters but it's not the major plot hole. The acting is solid enough and I like the subtlety of the external story (raging war between two factions left for control of the world etc), there could have been so much subplot information which could have easily just made the movie a mess.

I was surprised with the pace and changes we are presented with and it's done quite well, especially for basically a debut film for the director. This is my first review after being on this site since it was created, so bare with me! The movie starts off alright with quick references and the usual back and forth between characters in a loop movie.

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