{"id":51799,"date":"2026-02-21T01:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=51799"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:38:25","slug":"time-helmet-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/21\/time-helmet-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Helmet (2026)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A man creates a time travel helmet that can only be used in the future to travel back to it and decides to use it to patent troll his ex.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Written and directed by Mike Jackson, this sci-fi comedy is decently entertaining with some solid ideas throughout but will be of limited interest to many.\u00a0Basically, this\u00a0film is for fans of indie sci-fi and comedy with\u00a0a very specific\u00a0sense of humor.\u00a0The film here is clearly a passion project and one in which\u00a0the talent\u00a0all comes together to get the story on the screen in a manner that makes viewers want to watch the whole film.\u00a0The writing and direction work hand in hand here and quite well at that.\u00a0The film is\u00a0entertaining;\u00a0the dialog is annoying at time with some truly eye-rolling bits here and there, but it makes sense given the lead character and his personality. He is not meant to be necessarily loveable throughout the story\u00a0here,\u00a0and the writing works with this quite well, walking that line between \u201cugh\u201d and \u201cImma turn this off\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The cast here is a big part of why the film works. While there are bits here and there that are overacted, they do not feel too out of place with the tone of the\u00a0film,\u00a0and they work in a way. The lead of\u00a0Donald\u00a0Voltmann\u00a0is played by Peter New who nails the man most folks\u00a0wouldn\u2019t\u00a0want to be around. He imbues his character with a smarmy-ness, a condescension at times\u00a0even;\u00a0that works\u00a0just right. His character is seen at two\u00a0very different\u00a0times in his life and one of them is much worse than the other, something New manages to make quite distinct in his performance while\u00a0retaining\u00a0the general aura of the character through it all.\u00a0Joining him\u00a0are\u00a0Lou Ticzon as his sort\u00a0of\u00a0assistant, Paula Burrows as the lawyer\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0hired for his patent application,\u00a0Camryn Macdonald as his nemesis, Rhona Rees as his long suffering and peculiar ex-wife, and a few others. Everyone here does quite well with a standout performance by\u00a0Macdonald who just goes for\u00a0broke\u00a0and brings\u00a0a fun\u00a0energy to it all.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The film\u2019s look here is quite decent with solid lighting and framing allowing for the characters to take center stage, the appropriate way to film this story here. The work by Cameron\u00a0Belseth\u00a0shows an\u00a0understanding\u00a0that flair works\u00a0for some\u00a0films,\u00a0and others require\u00a0a more subdued approach. The film at hand here is enough as it is without going crazy with angles and lighting, so the careful approach here allows the story to stand front and center and the images to frame it and let it shine.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Time Helmet is a sci-fi comedy that should highly please fans of its specific sub-sub-genre but may not work at all for many others.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0decently entertaining, the lead character is someone most\u00a0wouldn\u2019t\u00a0want to spend 5 minutes with which plays against the film here and there during the run time.\u00a0Overall, the film is entertaining and works as a sci-fi\u00a0comedy\u00a0putting it in the higher rungs of its own type of\u00a0this genre.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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