Return to Cinema 2021 - Synchronic

Synchronic played at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, in 2021 it gets a COVID style cinema release.

Starring the fantastic Avenger Anthony Mackie and 50 Shades of Jamie Dornan.

So the plot goes

Steve (Mackie) is a ladies' man and Dennis (Dornan) is married with two children. In their work as paramedics on the late shift they begin to encounter a series of people who are either dead or in a strange state. After some exploration they discover it relates to a new designer drug, Synchronic.

Steve discovers he only has six weeks to live and decides to buy up all the Synchronic in town to protect others - only to discover that what he has is a time travel pill that may help to find his partner's missing daughter.

Steve chronicles how the pill works with different forms of ingestion effecting different scales of time travel as he tries to discover what happened to the missing daughter.

It's a literal trip. It's part crime thriller, part sci-fi horror mystery. The genre bending got a bit for me however critics and timing wise (a little over an hour and a half) made it a passable film.

Also Mackie should be more of a star, he does really light up the screen whenever he enters any scene. 2.5 Stars.