Things Will Be Different (2024) Review
From the minds that brought you LOKI and the distributor who released HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS into the UK, comes a bold, new, time-travel thriller, starring Adam David Thompson, Riley Dandy, Justin Benson, and Sarah Bolger.
After evading police following a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low at an abandoned farmhouse. But when a mysterious force emerges, it makes the pair question everything about themselves – and each other.
THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT is writer/director Michael Felker’s feature debut. Felker has previously edited features since 2014 for this film’s executive producers Justin Benson (who cameos in this movie) and Aaron Moorhead such as their acclaimed SPRING (2014), still arguably their most satisfying work, and more recently 2022’s SOMETHING IN THE DIRT. As with Moorhead and Benson’s film releases, THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT has hit the spot for many critics but for me this was yet another in a recent glut of movies that sees the protagonists travelling through time and making a muddle of things when attempting to make things right.
There is no question that is a handsomely filmed and acted production and it is not that I did not like it, it is more that I felt that I had seen similar storylines recently which robbed this of much of its thunder. There’s a lot of heavy lifting here for the viewer so those that prefer their entertainment to be spoon-fed to them and have everything explained every step of the way may wish to look elsewhere. THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT is a polished sci-fi flick with some elements of horror mingling in towards the end, overall, it lacked that ‘wow’ factor for me.
THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT will be in UK & Irish Cinemas from 4th October, and on Blu-ray & Digital from 18th November.
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
