Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
Director: Jon Watts
Writer: Matt Parker
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Aaron Eckhart, John Slattery, David Harbour
Plot: FBI agent Stanley Prince (Aaron Eckhart) is tasked with investigating a series of murders that have taken place over a period of forty years - all using the same gun. She asks her superior Agent Hawthorne (John Slattery) why he's been assigned such an old case, and is told that the previous agent in charge killed himself. Agent Prince goes over all the files, finding that the previous agent had recently traced the gun to Dr. Joanne Locke (Sandra Bullock), a former employee at a top-secret government project. Mysteriously, Locke was only five years old at the time of the first murder, and the gun in question had not even been manufactured by that point.
Dr. Locke has used a property of developing fetal human brains to create a time machine and has been traveling back in time to kill convicted serial killers before they strike, as practice to stop "the man from the past" (David Harbour) who had kidnapped and raped her when she was a teenager. The time travel has had an adverse effect on her health though, and she doesn't have long left to live.
FBI Agent Prince finally tracks down Dr. Locke. During questioning, Locke finally discloses to Agent Prince that an unfortunate side-effect of altering time for the time traveler is the sudden merging of two completely different time streams into the brain at once. Prince is forced to release Locke based on the year the gun was manufactured.
Prince goes to see Locke, who tells Prince that she is going to make one last journey to change her past before she dies. Locke disappears into the time machine, but Prince follows after her. Prince assists Locke in stopping the kidnapping and rescues the younger Joanne from the kidnapper, but the elder Dr. Locke is fatally wounded and dies.
Agent Prince returns to the present. He tracks down Dr. Locke, who recognizes Prince as the man who saved her from the kidnapping 30 years earlier. This Locke, despite lacking the motivation of preventing a traumatic event of her past, has also built a time machine, which she knew was possible after witnessing Agent Prince return to his own time.
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