2: 22 

Australia/US, 2017, 98 minutes, Colour.

Michiel Huisman, Teresa Palmer, Sam Reid, John Waters, Kerry Armstrong, Maeve Dermody.

Directed by Paul Currie.

While the film is billed as an American science-fiction drama, it is actually an Australian production, filmed in Sydney, most of the cast being Australia. The main exception is the leading man, media house, American.

The film was not successful on its release, billed as the film with the least box office 2017. However, it has had a firmer further life on television and streaming.

Michelle Houston plays an air traffic controller with some kind of psychic powers. However, in cycling through New York City, he has a lot of repetitious, déjà vu sites and experiences, especially at Grant Central Station, and everything, an ageing at the time of 2:22.

He has to give up his traffic controlling work when there is almost an accident – and the encounters a heart dealer, Teresa Palmer, who was on the plane. She also has a boyfriend, an artist, played by Sam Reid, who deals in holograms.

So, while there are the romantic complications in the present as well is the mystery of 222 and the characters and sites that are seen, it then becomes a link to a death 30 years earlier, the day that the two central characters were born, and some kind of dramatic psychic connection between those events and the present.

Which means that the audience does have to pay attention to sort out the various threads of the plot. The film looks quite good, the two central characters sympathetic. A science fiction/fantasy pastime.

1. Silence-fiction? Science fantasy?
2. The Australian production, filming in the US and Australia? American style, Australian supporting cast? The recreation of New York City, apartments, Grand Central station, Kennedy airport and flight control? The musical score?
3. The title, the time, Dylan and his experiences, his interest in stars, constellations? His background, family, training, fear of flying, flight control? His friendships? His hallucinations? Saving the planes from colliding? Being suspended?
4. His life, his apartment, his interests, the encounter with Sarah, his ticket to the aerial ballet, talks with Sarah, the audience having seen her on the plane about to crash? Her life and work, the art gallery, Jonas and his work? Dylan going to the exhibition, the holograms, the characters and situations of his 2:22 situation, his mad outburst and destructive?
5. Travelling in New York City, the camps, the recurring situations, same people, talk, the businessmen, the children, the pregnant woman, 2.22, the electrical fault?
6. The bond with Sarah, the sharing the same birthdate? Dylan and the information about the past, the events it Grand Central, Jake and Evelyn? 30 years earlier, the stars and constellations?
7. Dylan, realising that he and Sarah had to relive the 30 years events of the past, Evelyn as the dead woman, his going to see Catherine her sister, the discussions, Catherine sceptical?
8. Jonas, wanting to go away with Sarah, Dylan and his finding that Jake, the alleged murderer, lived in the apartment, the search, the discovery of the letters, reading the stories? Confiding in Sarah? Her hesitation?
9. The buildup to the climax, the repetition at Grand Central, Jonas, his reliving the murderer, Jake and Evelyn victims, Jonas shooting at Sarah, Dylan intervening and shot, recovering? Jonas shot by the police?
10. The aftermath, happiness, stillness pilot, Sarah and the baby?