🎥Reel Review: Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox

Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox is a low-budget, high-concept sci-fi romp that throws logic into a blender and hits puree. Samuel Dunning stars as a narcissistic physicist who builds a time machine and uses it… to murder his past self. Over and over. What could go wrong?

The answer: everything, and that’s the fun. The film leans hard into absurdity—stacking timelines, clones, and contradictions until the screen feels like a philosophical meltdown with a body count. Dunning commits to the chaos, playing a dozen versions of himself with just enough variation to keep it grounded in character.

Danny Trejo shows up as a vengeful mob boss. Joel McHale plays a conspiracy podcaster who might be right. Felicia Day brings a touch of heart to a movie otherwise driven by ego, explosions, and existential dread. It’s messy by design, but also more ambitious than most indies in its weight class.

The effects are scrappy, the humor is hit-or-miss, and the pacing drags in act two—but when the movie clicks, it’s clever and weird in all the right ways.

Mitten’s Verdict: Sharp, silly, and strangely moving. Tim Travers is indie sci‑fi comedy at its cleverest—a time‑travel romp with actual heart.

Rated: 6.5/10