A man and a woman in a hotel room in New Orleans are sitting on a bed when they each take a pill. Soon, both are hallucinating. She finds herself in a jungle and sees a snake slithering toward her. He finds himself falling from a great height in a desert sandstorm, grinning like an idiot while plummeting earthward.
Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) are paramedics who have been responding to strange injuries. In each case, they find some new drug called Synchronic is involved. Then they respond to a couple in a hotel room. The woman has been bit by a snake and her leg is swollen. The man is found in pieces at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Then Dennis' teenaged daughter, Brianna, vanishes and it turns out she took a dose of Synchronic.
Steve buys as much Synchronic as he can get his hands on and tests it while filming himself. The drug sends him back in time for 7 minutes but where and when he goes is determined by his location. Can he use the last of his supply to track down Brianna?
The movie had a lot of potential but never got there. There is a lot of nonlinear story telling which just confuses the plot. The score begins as heavy and oppressive, like this is some dark horror but mostly nothing happens until Steve starts experimenting. Steve has a lot of backstory that doesn't add to the movie.
Mostly disappointing. Skip.
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