Rarely have sci-fi/fantasy flicks embraced the "chosen one" trope as enthusiastically as Seth Larney's 2067, in which a world on the brink of extinction invests every ounce of hope in a time-machine experiment, and, once it's running, a message from the future comes back: "Send Ethan Whyte." And so a nobody who fixes power plants for a living becomes humanity's hope in this clunky sci-fictioner, which has a couple of interesting ideas up its sleeve but doesn't know how to reveal them.
A more skillful filmmaker could have made this ride less jarring, but as it is, the rushed nature of its action and emotional beats makes 2067 feel like a story that needs the breathing room of a limited-run TV series or a novel, not a feature.
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