A heartbroken inventor journeys 800,000 years into humanity's future, finding a world of epic, warring races.
Suspenseful and pulpy. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Kanopy (free), Hoopla (free) and YouTube (free).
No surprises for a PG-13: no sex or nudity and mild language.
Rated PG-13, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 7.
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Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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