5ive Days to Midnight (2004): When college professor J.T. Neumeyer discovers a police file that outlines the details of his murder - which is to take place five days in the future - he wastes no time trying to save his own life. ( 6.6)
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Stars: Timothy Hutton, Randy Quaid and Kari Matchett
This is a "time travel" type of movie w/o people actually doing to time travel part. When you know a future event in full detail, the days and events leading up to it becomes sort of a time travel situation. There's a basic flaw in the story. If details were sent back in time to change the future events, then you eliminate the motivation to send the details in the future. If, in the future the details stay the same, then that's proof positive that information sent back wasn't useful and the events weren't changed. This can be explained away with a parallel universe theory, but that would simply mean there's at least one universe where the murder takes place. It is all nice for the people in the fixed up parallel universe, but that other one is still the pits. Discounting that, the story was pretty strong and acting was nice. (4 episodes; watched over two nights) My Rating: 6.5
