Several different factions compete in the search for ancient Japanese tablets that have the secret of immortality. User Reviews "There can be only TWO!" 23 March 2003 | by Zantara Xenophobe (Illinois, USA) See all my reviews This review is going to have some hefty, major SPOILERS in it, so don't read on if you plan on seeing it. You're immortal. You have sat through every type of bad movie imaginable and are still alive and kicking. You are still strong enough to watch more bad movies. Nothing can keep you down; you keep popping back up for more, thus nothing can harm you. You pop `Time Burst: The Final Alliance' into your VCR, sure of your ability to survive anything AIP can hurl at you. It isn't until the first fifteen minutes are over and the plot has begun to unravel itself when you start to question your own invincibility --- indeed, your own sanity --- and whether or not you will have enough strength to operate your VCR ever again. At least these were my thoughts when I, like a slobbering idiot, decided to watch this movie. The `plot,' as it is, concerns a man named Urbane (David Scott King, having no other film credit). We first see Urbane forcing information out of a rich businessman on board a small plane. Then the plane crashes but Urbane walks away from it with nothing more than a small case of amnesia. He wanders about a bit, only to be hounded by guys in suits that work for `the agency.' He is also pursued by a woman, Jane (Michiko, wisely not using her real name). Through a series of flashbacks in the first half hour, we learn that Urbane is a few hundred years old. Seems that he was an Englishman that had gone to Japan (though I complained to the screen that Japan had closed its borders to foreigners during that time period) to be a student of The Master (Gerald Okamura) and gain his wisdom of immortality. This happens, so here we are now a few hundred years later, and Urbane remembers that he worked for `the agency' and is trying to get ancient artifacts that explain the secret of immortality, which is now in possession of The Master, and give it to the evil agency guys. But having tagged along with Jane and having his memory temporarily erased has made him realize how wrong he is, so he vows to protect The Master and the secret. Question: If you have been alive for centuries and have had all that time to learn vast knowledge and amass a little fortune yet, like Methuselah, you accomplish nothing, doesn't that make you the stupidest person alive? I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that a movie about an immortal man in modern times is a great idea. They could make a string of good movies about that! Heck, we can even turn it into a hit syndicated series! And I would totally agree with you on this thinking. The problems here is that it has already been done. The franchise was called `Highlander.' Come on, Peter Yuval, did you think we weren't paying attention? Actually, I thought the plot similarities were a coincidence until The Master, presumably tired of being alive, requests for Urbane to kill him. For an immortal to die, The Master explains, his head must be chopped off. Just like in the Highlander franchise! I was about to lose it until, a few minutes later, The Master instructs Urbane to kill him, only he doesn't chop his head off. Question: If you're an immortal martial arts master and you tell your protege the only way to kill you is beheading and you have him disembowel you instead, doesn't that make you the second-stupidest person alive? Oh but the fun(?) doesn't end with such idiocies. The villain that wants the secret to immortality (couldn't actually figure out if he himself was immortal) has a high-tech laser gadget that apparently is the second (or maybe third) way to kill an immortal. Most of the end action takes place inside The Master's old home, and the villain has a bunch of business-suited thugs chasing Urbane through the house armed with nothing more than regular guns. Question: If you are a bad guy and you want to kill an immortal, and you know the only way you can do it is with your laser gizmo, but you instead send your men to kill him with regular guns that have no effect whatsoever on the immortal, doesn't that make you the third-stupidest person alive? To top it off, the movie doesn't exactly have an ending. Urbane and Jane get away, sure, but the villain is left standing and I lost track of what happened to the secret of immortality. I know this much, though: if being immortal means watching movies like this for the rest of eternity, than I can't wait to die. I don't blame the actors because all of them, with one exception (the guy playing the head coroner, who was just awful in the movie's worst scene), were as good as they could be with a script like this. It is they alone that saved this movie from getting a 1 from me. The person to blame is firmly Yuval. I liked Yuval's `Shooters,' a lot, but cringed at his disastrous `Firehead.' But even `Firehead' had some big named actors and cheesy effects, of which `Time Burst' has none. Question: If you find a movie called `Time Burst: The Final Alliance,' and realize fifteen minutes in that you are heading for a train wreck, but you don't shut it off and instead watch it to the end anyway, doesn't that make you the fourth-stupidest person alive? It sure feels like it. Zantara's score: 2 out of 10. Several different factions compete in the search for ancient Japanese tablets that have the secret of immortality. User Reviews "There can be only TWO!" 23 March 2003 | by Zantara Xenophobe (Illinois, USA) _ See all my reviews This review is going to have some hefty, major SPOILERS in it, so don't read on if you plan on seeing it. You're immortal. You have sat through every type of bad movie imaginable and are still alive and kicking. You are still strong enough to watch more bad movies. Nothing can keep you down; you keep popping back up for more, thus nothing can harm you. You pop `Time Burst: The Final Alliance' into your VCR, sure of your ability to survive anything AIP can hurl at you. It isn't until the first fifteen minutes are over and the plot has begun to unravel itself when you start to question your own invincibility --- indeed, your own sanity --- and whether or not you will have enough strength to operate your VCR ever again. At least these were my thoughts when I, like a slobbering idiot, decided to watch this movie. The `plot,' as it is, concerns a man named Urbane (David Scott King, having no other film credit). We first see Urbane forcing information out of a rich businessman on board a small plane. Then the plane crashes but Urbane walks away from it with nothing more than a small case of amnesia. He wanders about a bit, only to be hounded by guys in suits that work for `the agency.' He is also pursued by a woman, Jane (Michiko, wisely not using her real name). Through a series of flashbacks in the first half hour, we learn that Urbane is a few hundred years old. Seems that he was an Englishman that had gone to Japan (though I complained to the screen that Japan had closed its borders to foreigners during that time period) to be a student of The Master (Gerald Okamura) and gain his wisdom of immortality. This happens, so here we are now a few hundred years later, and Urbane remembers that he worked for `the agency' and is trying to get ancient artifacts that explain the secret of immortality, which is now in possession of The Master, and give it to the evil agency guys. But having tagged along with Jane and having his memory temporarily erased has made him realize how wrong he is, so he vows to protect The Master and the secret. Question: If you have been alive for centuries and have had all that time to learn vast knowledge and amass a little fortune yet, like Methuselah, you accomplish nothing, doesn't that make you the stupidest person alive? I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that a movie about an immortal man in modern times is a great idea. They could make a string of good movies about that! Heck, we can even turn it into a hit syndicated series! And I would totally agree with you on this thinking. The problems here is that it has already been done. The franchise was called `Highlander.' Come on, Peter Yuval, did you think we weren't paying attention? Actually, I thought the plot similarities were a coincidence until The Master, presumably tired of being alive, requests for Urbane to kill him. For an immortal to die, The Master explains, his head must be chopped off. Just like in the Highlander franchise! I was about to lose it until, a few minutes later, The Master instructs Urbane to kill him, only he doesn't chop his head off. Question: If you're an immortal martial arts master and you tell your protege the only way to kill you is beheading and you have him disembowel you instead, doesn't that make you the second-stupidest person alive? Oh but the fun(?) doesn't end with such idiocies. The villain that wants the secret to immortality (couldn't actually figure out if he himself was immortal) has a high-tech laser gadget that apparently is the second (or maybe third) way to kill an immortal. Most of the end action takes place inside The Master's old home, and the villain has a bunch of business-suited thugs chasing Urbane through the house armed with nothing more than regular guns. Question: If you are a bad guy and you want to kill an immortal, and you know the only way you can do it is with your laser gizmo, but you instead send your men to kill him with regular guns that have no effect whatsoever on the immortal, doesn't that make you the third-stupidest person alive? To top it off, the movie doesn't exactly have an ending. Urbane and Jane get away, sure, but the villain is left standing and I lost track of what happened to the secret of immortality. I know this much, though: if being immortal means watching movies like this for the rest of eternity, than I can't wait to die. I don't blame the actors because all of them, with one exception (the guy playing the head coroner, who was just awful in the movie's worst scene), were as good as they could be with a script like this. It is they alone that saved this movie from getting a 1 from me. The person to blame is firmly Yuval. I liked Yuval's `Shooters,' a lot, but cringed at his disastrous `Firehead.' But even `Firehead' had some big named actors and cheesy effects, of which `Time Burst' has none. Question: If you find a movie called `Time Burst: The Final Alliance,' and realize fifteen minutes in that you are heading for a train wreck, but you don't shut it off and instead watch it to the end anyway, doesn't that make you the fourth-stupidest person alive? It sure feels like it. Zantara's score: 2 out of 10.
Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth
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1963//
Novel
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FAN CHI
Jason learns that his cat, Gareth, is able to talk and has the power to travel to nine different points in world history (his "nine lives"). Written by Lloyd Alexander. Jason learns that his cat, Gareth, is able to talk and has the power to travel to nine different points in world history (his "nine lives"). Jason convinces Gareth to take him along and their adventures begin where cats are considered in divine, Ancient Egypt in the year 2700 BC. Subsequently they visit Rome, where they are taken in by the Old Cats of Caesar. There, they are kidnapped to a village where Cerdric Longtooth, the chieftain of the village tries to burn him but his wife objects. Later on, the villagers find out about Gareth. They refer to Gareth as a "Catamountain." Jason takes this opportunity to pretend to be the beholder of the supposedly Ferocious beast. They later on become friends with the village and leave after another catamountain arrives. This time, with kittens. Britain (55 BC), Ireland (AD 411), Japan (998), Italy (1468), Peru (1555), the Isle of Man (1588), Germany (1600), and America (1775).
Time Changer
2002/10/25
Film
95 min PG
DRA SF
USA
A Bible professor from 1890 comes forward in time to the present via a time machine and cannot believe the things that he sees. Featuring Gavin Macleod. A Bible professor from 1890 comes forward in time to the present via a time machine and cannot believe the things that he sees! ///// 1900s, Contemporary
Time Chasers
1994/03/17
Film
89 min PG-13
SF
An inventor (Matthew Bruch) comes up with a time machine, but must prevent its abuse at the hands of an evil CEO. An inventor comes up with a time machine, but must prevent its abuse at the hands of an evil CEO. A man must go to different eras to stop his time-traveling technology from falling into the wrong hands. Nick creates a time machine out of an airplane and a Commodore-64, and shows it to his friends by taking them 50 years into the future. Nick sells the technology to Gen-Corp, a high-tech firm run by J.K. Robertson, whose office is in the mezzanine of a shopping mall. Robertson, however, turns out to be Evil, and uses the time machine to plunder the future. With the lives of himself and his friends at stake, Nick needs to use his time machine to travel a week back in time and convince himself not to give the demo to Robertson.
The Time Closet
Film
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Time Conditions
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"The Time Conqueror"
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1932/07/
Short Story
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The Time Control Stories
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1935/02/
Short Story
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The Time Control Stories: "The Time Control"
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1936//
Short Story
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The Time Control Stories: "When Time Stood Still"
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1935//
Short Story
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"The Time Deflector"
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1929/12/
Short Story
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Time Demon
1996//
Film
90 min
COM HOR SF
France
A small megalomaniac actor, Jack Gomez, is pursued by Nazis using a time machine ... because Jack is the descendant of a conquistador, possessor of a magic talisman. A French science fiction film directed by Richard J. Thomson.
Time Demon 2: Dans les griffes du Samoura¥
2000//
Film
115 min
France
Jack Gomez has become a star in an action movie, and he has everything to be happy about until the day his path crosses with a scientist who has become the target of a Japanese thug, Mitsuhirato, and a pair of masters. Jack Gomez has become a star in an action movie, and he has everything to be happy about until the day his path crosses with a scientist who has become the target of a Japanese thug, Mitsuhirato, and a pair of masters.
"Time Dredge"
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1942/06/
Short Story
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Time Dwellers
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Web Series
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SF
Consolidation, a secret agency which is run by bllionaires and partnering with the most affluent people in the world, combine their skills and business working ethics to control time disturbances from the past and future. Consolidation, a secret agency which is run by bllionaires and partnering with the most affluent people in the world, combine their skills and business working ethics to control time disturbances from the past and future, with all the latest in technology,and managing staying off the radar of any government agency in any country. The agency has agents who live within a close community in a Village in the mountains of north Wales they have been recruited from various places in time from our past and future and live in there own bubble of time in the village. In 1996 a black hole was discovered in space on the dark side of the Moon by the Hubble telescope and at that time an engineer called John Stebnic was building and designing Satellites for geostationary orbit above the earth for Tv feeds. Once the space station was finalized and built NASA was approached to see if an independent experiment could be performed with the black hole. The space station became a base for John Stebnic where upon he has now sent geostationary satellites through the black hole to various times of the earth's future and past so that Consolidation agents can bring back data. The Satellites have nuclear Laser warheads designed from our future. Consolidation's purpose is to keep Time on course and to rectify Time Distortions caused by the Evil Time dweller and his Mercenaries of Time. TT- temporal agents fixing timeline anomalies Bygones, Agent Sloan's Demise, The Time Detectives, Time Trap
Time Enough for Love
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1973/06/
Novel
605 min
Lazarus Long travels in time to 1916 and falls in love with his own mother.
Time Enough: The Alien Conspiracy
Film
- min
"The Time Entity"
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1936/10/
Short Story
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"The Time Express"
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1932/12/
Short Story
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Time Express
1 season, 4 episodes
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1979/04/26
TV Series
60 min
DRA FAN
USA
Jason (Vincent Price) and Margaret Winters were the sophisticated hosts of the Time Express, a train that took its passengers back in time to relive a momentous moment of their lives. Starring Vincent Price as Jason Winters. Jason and Margaret Winters were the sophisticated hosts of the Time Express, a train that took its passengers back in time to relive a momentous moment of their lives. A strange train picks up passengers and whisks them back in time to important events in their life, events they can try to change. An American science fiction television series created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts.
