included · Mechanical

Ticking Clock

Ernie Barbarash · 101 minutes

A reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer with plans to butcher specific girls, and he begins to investigates on his own, and finding that every trail leads to a 9-year-old orphan living in a group home.

Thriller, Action, Crime

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What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Crime reporter Lewis Hicks finds his murdered girlfriend's killer's journal listing future victims, and its trail leads to James, a nine-year-old in a group home. The killer, Keech, turns out to be James himself from 2032, using a pocket-watch time machine to rewrite his abusive childhood, with each murder changing his past only to produce another bad outcome. In the rooftop climax the young James wounds Keech, and killing his younger self erases Keech and his intended victim. Literal travel and repeated changes to the past drive the whole plot, but they stay hidden behind a serial-killer procedural until the late reveal, so it stays at 7.

James travels from 2032 using a pocket-watch time machine to change his earlier life.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan22.6

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance7/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.5/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 38.26 base × 59.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Neal McDonough, Austin Abrams, Yancey Arias, Danielle Nicolet

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Releases & formats

8 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

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