Retroactive

Starring:James Belushi, Kylie Travis, Shannon Whirry, Frank Whaley, Jesse Borrego, M. Emmet Walsh, Sherman Howard, Guy Boyd, Kristina Coggins, Robbie Thibaut Jr., Roger Clinton
Director: Louis Morneau
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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The Dangers Of Time Travel: A Very Good And Underrated Film!
Great movie, but the DVD image quality Sucks!!!
Retroactice (DVD)
Quantum Leap meets Groundhog Day.
She's sexy; she time travels; she kicks butt.

Retroactive
Starring: James Belushi , Kylie Travis , Shannon Whirry , Frank Whaley , and Jesse Borrego
Director: Louis Morneau
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00001O2H0
Release Date: 1999-08-24

Description

If you could leap back in time and change the past, would you? If you did, could you accept the consequences? A young woman comes face to face with these tantalizing questions in this action-packed sci-fi thriller starring James Belushi, Kylie Travis and Frank Whaley. Exploding with breathtaking special effects and startling twists and turns, this full-throttle adventure pushes the envelope for cutting-edge excitement. Karen Warren (Travis) is a beautiful hostage negotiator trying to escape a tragic past. But her desperate flight leads to an even greater horror when she finds herselfstranded on a deserted highway and at the mercy of a violent psychopath (Belushi) who commits a brutal murder right before her eyes. But this time, Karen gets a second chance. Stumbling upon an isolated research center, Karen meets a brilliant young scientist (Whaley) and discovers a top-secret device that gives her the opportunity to stop the savage rampage before it begins!

Customer Reviews:

The Dangers Of Time Travel: A Very Good And Underrated Film!.......2006-10-11

When I first bought this DVD, I did so because the price was reasonable and the film sounded interesting. I am glad I did. This is a much better film than many have described. James Belushi does an outstanding role as a bigoted, wife-beating, irritating Texan. And as for Kylie Travis, she portrays a police psychiatrist whose attempts to alter the events of the future are futile. The film starts off with Travis, whose car has broken down on a desolate stretch of road in Texas, and is picked up by James Belushi and his wife. When Belushi [who is bad tempered] kills his wife in a fit of rage, Travis runs for her life in the desolate Texas desert. Moreover, she is in a part of Texas where it is mostly barren, and with nowhere to hide

However, as fate would have it she encounters a research scientist, Frank Whaley, who is conducting experiments in a secret and enclosed facility. The project he is working on is a time travel machine. When Travis accidently enters the chamber where teleportation occurs, she is catapulted back in time. She finds herself back in the car, and knows everything that is about to happen. And this is where the film gets really interesting. Travis makes repeated attempts to alter the future, however, every time she does she makes events worse than before. I will not give spoilers on what she eventually does, but I do recommend the film. It is definetly worth the watch, and the purchase. Belushi portrays his character to the hilt. Wonderful acting, writing and suspense make this a very good film. I highly recommend the film. [Star: 4.5]

Great movie, but the DVD image quality Sucks!!!.......2006-07-19

Great movie, but I'm very disapointed with the DVD image quality. It just simply sucks! Acceptable definition of contours in close plans, but very pixelated in the large/wide plans, to the point that loses detail completely and the image is almost - and just visual noise!!

Retroactice (DVD).......2006-07-14

EXCELLENT..SURPISED MULTIPLE TIMES....SO LIKE LIFE: WHENEVER YOU THINK YOU CAN MAKE IT BETTER WITH A SECOND CHANCE, THE OUTCOME MAY NOT (RATHER WILL NOT!) BE WHAT YOU HAD HOPE...Be careful all you "do gooders"!

Quantum Leap meets Groundhog Day........2004-12-12

The flick stars James Belushi as Frank, a psycotic killer with violent mean streak & temper, Kylie Travis, a semi-big star then from the UK, as Karen, a psychologist from Michigan who becomes hostage negotiator, & Shannon Whirry as Rayanne, Frank's ex who is killed brutally. It also features Frank Whaley as Brian, a young & handsome scientist who just perfected a time machine & Roger Clinton as a truck driver.
Karen has a flat tire, so she pulls over by the side of the road & gets picked up by Frank & Rayanne. Frank immediately stars to spook Karen by getting pissed off over little things. Rayanne tells him to calm down & get over it, but Frank doesn't listen to her. He picks up a gun after some tense dialog, Rayanne says she's gonna be killed by him, he fires it & kills her. Frank pulls over some time later on & Karen escapes to a lab where Brian is at.
Karen introduces herself to Brian & says she needs some help. Brian, after then, reveals his time machine to her. She goes into the machine & sets the time back to a couple of hours ago. Instead of fixing the problem she relives the same scenario as before except of course, things are more out of hand & unpredictable now. Frank on the 2nd time to the lab, pulls over his car & chases her with gun, but doesn't pursue her to the lab. She goes back into the machine again & tries it again. This time, things seem to be all right until she relives the same scenario over again. It takes her 3 or 4 times to get it right, on her final attempt, Frank chases her into the lab, & threatens to kill everybody if she doesn't come back to him. The time when she gets it right, she kills Frank & drives off into the sunset behind the wheel of his car.
It has some decent acting, but nothing too memorable. A lot of the dialog is fairly good, but some is really lame for sci-fi action. The special effects are really good & shine in this flick. The camerawork is good, as is the directing. I din't care for the music too much, it wasn't too bad, but just seemed out of place for the movie.
Grade: 6 out of 10.
Run time: 91 minutes.
Rated R for language & violence.

She's sexy; she time travels; she kicks butt........2004-10-22

This has been a favorite of mine since the second time I saw it. Not that I did not like it the first time; I had seen it on cable but could not remember the name until I came across a used copy about 4 years later. I have since watched it several times and always enjoy it. Kylie Travis plays a police negotiator who had failed in an attempt to negotiate the release of five hostages and instead are killed in an explosion (this preludes the movie in a flashback sequence). After she runs her car off the road because her mind is on the hostage incident, she is picked up by a couple played by Jim Belushi and Shannon Whirry. Jim Belushi is a loudmouth, over copensating, gun toting redneck (and those are his good qualities) transporting stolen computer chips and Shannon Whirry is quite abused by him. What follows is a car-ride that ends in murder and a chance happening across a time-machine in a secret government sponsored lab. This gives way to repeat the car-ride and incidents which follow (this may well be the longest ten minute car-ride in history). There are many small details which may seem insignificant at first but become further plot points as the story repeats itself. Each time the story repeats some action is taken differently in the hopes that it will change the outcome; often, though, making it worse. The characterizations are further developed as the story repeats. Since the story is building and fluctuating each time, it is not repetitve, and each subsequent change to the story increases the pace of the movie that much more. The directing and the story itself are well done. Where someone could have taken a story like this and let it drag by being too repetitive or lose the continuity by trying to advance the story too quickly; they came up with the right mix. 'Retroactive' is far from being shy on action; from car chases to flying lead and about everything in-between. The stand out performance in 'Retroactive' belongs to Shannon Whirry. She is incredible as the abused wife who tries to fight back. There are several in your face shots that all three play well but Shannon just seriously delivers; since this story hinges on saving her character, she gives good reason to make you want her character saved. M. Emmet Walsh is particularly nasty as Belushi's cohort in crime; and seeing Walsh's character bounced off the hood and over the roof of a speeding station wagon gives great satisfaction. Kylie Travis in her tight black pantsuit, white shirt and push-up bra is particularly captivating and exciting everytime she beats up Jim Belushi. 'Retroactice' is an exciting (at times loud), well paced, well scripted action movie with a great sci-fi premise. Ultimately this movie is not so much about time travel as it is about regrets about decisions we have made or not made and the blame we place on ourselves. If given the opportunity to change things we may find that we can actually make it worse and are not to blame for the natural course that events will take with or without us.-Bob

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