Omni Loop – Movie Review (3/5)

OMNI LOOP is a new Sci-Fi Drama about time travel and dealing with the consequences of it. Starring Mary-Louise Parker with Ayo Edebiri in a key supporting role. Read our full Omni Loop movie review here!

OMNI LOOP is a sci-fi time travel movie starring Mary-Louise Parker. It’s a sci-fi drama that has a time loop story, so you’ll be seeing the same things play out again and again.

Not in a bad way though as we don’t have to watch the full versions over and over. It’s a very character-driven story with Ayo Edebiri in a key supporting role. The runtime is 1 hour and 47 minutes, which is a bit too long, but not by much.

Continue reading our Omni Loop movie review below. Find it In Theaters and on VOD from September 20, 2024.

An Existential Sci-Fi Story

In Omni Loop, we follow the character Zoya Lowe (Mary-Louise Parker). She’s a quantum physicist, who hasn’t been working in the field for quite some time but has published several books.

When we meet her, she has just been diagnosed with having a black hole growing in her chest. With no way to cure it, she is given only one week to live. However, the doctors and her family don’t know that she’s constantly time-traveling.

She’s stuck in a time loop to stay alive. She goes back one week just seconds before the black hole swallows her up. She’s lived this week – the final week of her life – over and over again.

In fact, she no longer has any idea how long she’s been living this one week. In an attempt to change things up, Zoya meets a gifted student named Paula (Ayo Edebiri).

Zoya convinces her to team up so they can unlock the mysteries of time travel. After all, Zoya has all the time in the world. Over and over again!

Dealing with death and loss

When you watch Omni Loop (and you should), you’ll pick up on the key subjects of death and loss fairly quickly. The main character, Zoya (Mary-Louise Parker) is dying of a strange condition and has just one week left to live.

Of course, the time travel element of this story allows her to constantly go back one week, so for her, it’s a neverending time loop. It allows her to continue living, but not change the outcome.

For her loved ones, it’s also reliving the same week of saying goodbye to their family member over and over again. Zoya is strangely cold when we meet her first because she seems to forget their feelings.

But, as anyone who has lost a loved one will know, saying goodbye is heartbreaking. So, for Zoya’s husband and daughter, it’s a time loop of pain and suffering.

Something Zoya needs to acknowledge, but she’s too preoccupied trying to solve her own issues. There’s a very important message in this movie and you should watch it to go through the journey alongside Zoya – and the other characters.

Watch Omni Loop in theaters or on digital

Omni Loop was written and directed by Bernardo Britto. He directed the 2016 mockumentary Jacqueline Argentine and HBO horror-comedy series Los Espookys.

The conception of this new movie happened in the aftermath of losing a loved one. As someone who has been through the same, I have to say that it shows. In so many good ways.

I read that part of Bernardo Britto’s intention with this movie was to make “a movie about death that felt life-affirming”. Maybe that’s one of the best ways to describe Omni Loop.

It’s about death and loss, but also a celebration of having had love and life. Also, it’s a story that will make you laugh and wonder. And isn’t that also a key ingredient to life? Maybe even part of the very meaning of life?! I think so.

Omni Loop is In theaters and On Digital from September 20, 2024.

Details

Director: Bernardo Britto
Writer: Bernardo Britto
Cast: Mary-Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri, Hannah Pearl Utt, Chris Witaske, Carlos Jacott, Harris Yulin, Steven Maier, Eddie Cahill

Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.