Hello and welcome back to another fabulous Movie and TV Review!!

I finally found a movie that I didn’t particularly care for, and that movie is none other than Omni Loop.

Word of warning: if you don’t want to hear me rant and rave about a borderline Karen-ish character, I suggest you skip this article.

With that being said, let’s get ittttttttt!

We find Zoya Lowe on her deathbed, surrounded by her loved ones and reliving the same week over and over again because she doesn’t want to die.

How, you ask?

By the power of Grayskull!!!

Lol, just kidding.

She possesses a mysterious set of time-travel pills that allow her to travel back one week at a time.

The catch?

Every trip seems connected to the growing black hole embedded in her chest.

Zoya Lowe

Zoya Lowe, in my humble—but accurate—opinion, is a selfish, lazy, and entitled brat.

If it weren’t for the fact that she was staring death in the face, I suspect she would’ve happily continued being her selfish self.

I understand her desire to live.

And honestly, reliving the same week over and over would make anybody cranky.

But here’s my issue:

The movie explores alternate realities where, if a particular week fails, she simply wakes up in the hospital and tries something different.

Fair enough.

But what if those realities continue without her?

What if those versions of her family and friends are left wondering where she disappeared to and when she’s coming back?

Maybe I’m overthinking it.

But still.

More importantly, she displays a pattern of abandoning people the moment a situation stops benefiting her.

Professor Dulseberg practically says exactly what I was thinking:

“Oh, my God. What potential. What talent. You squandered every opportunity that I gave you.”

Ouch.

The Research

The year is 1985 at Princeton IGE.

Before her classmate leaves for Europe to continue his research, Zoya quits her studies and “settles” for Donald, her future husband.

Meanwhile, her classmate Mark Harrison continues their work for decades.

Sadly, his research ultimately fails, and in the process, he neglects his family.

He is survived by his son.

Thirty years later, during her experiments with Paula Campos—a student and laboratory assistant at MDC—Zoya once again falls into old habits.

The two attempt to break down the pills and understand how they work.

Yet she casually disregards her family, ignoring their pleas for her to come home and spend her final days with them.

It’s only after she hits another dead end that she decides to seek them out again.

Paula’s motivation is heartbreaking.

She hopes that understanding time travel will allow her to prevent her parents’ deaths in a car accident.

Personally, I don’t think they would’ve succeeded even if they unlocked the secrets of time travel.

If Zoya’s weekly impending death is anything to go by, fate seems pretty stubborn.

But why rob Paula of her hope?

That train of thought also made me wonder:

What motivated Mark Harrison to continue the research for so many years after Zoya quit?

What wound did life inflict upon him that made him neglect his own family?

Or was he simply chasing glory?

The man who solved time travel.

My Problem With Zoya

I quickly became annoyed whenever she shot down Paula’s ideas while refusing to come up with any better ones herself.

And true to character, when push came to shove…

She quit.

Again.

Frankly, if I were Paula, I would’ve stashed those pills for myself and continued the research.

Further, during the scene where she lies in her husband’s arms after finally accepting her fate, she tells him she wanted “more.”

When questioned about what she meant, I have a sneaking suspicion she lied.

I think what she really meant was that she wanted a different life.

A life where she hadn’t settled for the one she built with him.

Final Thoughts

My ultimate question is:

How did she get those pills in the first place?

Did she steal them?

Did someone give them to her?

Where did they come from?

And why does she keep condemning herself to an endless loop of failure while convincing herself she’ll eventually accomplish something great?

Why not simply opt out?

Why not use her newfound appreciation for life to enjoy the years she has left with the people she loves?

If it were me, I’d stop trying to rewrite history.

I’d go live my life.

And maybe wait until I was old enough to buy a lottery ticket.

Lol.

Anypoops, I give Omni Loop 2 rose petals.

If that.

Maybe I’m being too harsh.

Tell me what you think.

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