I'm not gonna repeat, what others already summarized.
This movie is a relict, not from the 80ies, but 70ies. It tries to expand an idea, that might work being told like that, in a book, into a movie.
Zemeckis might have made a well paced 45min episode of some anthology series from it. Spielberg might have developed a mini series of 6*45min, adding answers to questions, that do arise while watching.
The time travel logic is faulty, there don't even show up anachronisms, as ... neither time adds time-specific elements or details. It shares the SFX style of "Logans Run", elements and look of "12 Monkeys", some Murdock (from MacGyver) wheelchair weirdo and a robot (?), which looks and behaves like a cross of the tin man (Oz) and "Box" from Logans Run, but at least it doesn't get as dumb as "Flight World War II" (which is impossible, anyway).
I doesn't answer even half of the arising questions, but delivers much babbling, that tries to draw some romance, but never explains, why the future people don't simply travel or spread to a context, that grants them survival, earlier. Neither does it explain, why this robot weirdo knows more, than the others, or what these mummies in the tubes are all about.
Every single minute, you think about it, opens up another flaw in the given story-wad (you cannot call it story LINE), but also makes clear what great potential the skeleton of the given elements have.
In the wide range of time travel movies, this one falls short without any good reason, a clever script could not have fixed with a few twists.
This movie is a relict, not from the 80ies, but 70ies. It tries to expand an idea, that might work being told like that, in a book, into a movie.
Zemeckis might have made a well paced 45min episode of some anthology series from it. Spielberg might have developed a mini series of 6*45min, adding answers to questions, that do arise while watching.
The time travel logic is faulty, there don't even show up anachronisms, as ... neither time adds time-specific elements or details. It shares the SFX style of "Logans Run", elements and look of "12 Monkeys", some Murdock (from MacGyver) wheelchair weirdo and a robot (?), which looks and behaves like a cross of the tin man (Oz) and "Box" from Logans Run, but at least it doesn't get as dumb as "Flight World War II" (which is impossible, anyway).
I doesn't answer even half of the arising questions, but delivers much babbling, that tries to draw some romance, but never explains, why the future people don't simply travel or spread to a context, that grants them survival, earlier. Neither does it explain, why this robot weirdo knows more, than the others, or what these mummies in the tubes are all about.
Every single minute, you think about it, opens up another flaw in the given story-wad (you cannot call it story LINE), but also makes clear what great potential the skeleton of the given elements have.
In the wide range of time travel movies, this one falls short without any good reason, a clever script could not have fixed with a few twists.