is that by saying 'we're not going to get into the nuts and bolts of the time travel shit' it's getting a pass when for as smart and as rich as the film is thematically and considering Johnson brought in Shane Carruth as a consultant the time travel stuff has some HUGE gaping holes that are really distracting.

Time travel is never going to be air tight but damn in a movie that is this smart and this precise they could've made sure their central conceit didn't fall apart under the slightest bit of scrutiny.

I really loved so many things about the movie most of all the blend of so many different generic conventions into a unique, believable and well-realized world.

If anything Johnson should get credit for making it work at all much less making it work really well. Because with all the moving parts and pieces a lesser filmmaker would have made this into an absolutely terrible movie