The lo-fi, indie style of Primer will be off-putting to some, as will the rapid-fire conversations that power the narrative which make it increasingly tough to follow unless you catch every word everybody says, but in terms of ideas and ambition this is worth a watch.

Telling the story of two friends and struggling tech entrepeneurs trying to create a device that reduces the weight of objects (for better storage and transport) and stumbling upon the ability to travel back…

Dear oh dear. I imagine if I'd gone to one of the teenage writers on my website and said 'write me a Wolverine movie and make it SUPER AWESOME!' then this would have been the result. A mess from start to finish - woeful dialogue, badly-plotted action sequences, the kinds of acting I might expect to find at a zombie convention after happy hour, and the most underused set of great X-universe characters since... well, this film.

See, they set…