Product Details

• Actors: Matthew Bruch, Bonnie Pritchard
• Directors: David Giancola
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Stardance Video
• VHS Release Date: April 23, 1996
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303970648
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #419,683 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Low-Budget Sci-Fi/Suspense Film, July 18, 2010

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Eric Perlin (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time Chasers (DVD)

I am compelled to write this review because I think other customer reviews were far too harsh on this film.

"Time Chasers" was shot on a miniscule budget, and stars a bunch of actors no one ever heard of. The package claims it won an award called the "Gold Award Houston Worldfest". I've never heard of that award either.

Despite its low budget, the story is intriguing, the performances are all good, and the pace is brisk. It's weakest aspect is its synthesized music track.

The plot is sufficiently original. It may have been influenced by other time travel and futuristic films, but it does not brazenly rip off anything.

The plot involves a young scientist named Nick who rigs up a private airplane to travel through time. He demonstrates his invention to a newspaper reporter named Lisa (who soon becomes his love interest) and to a corporate CEO named Robertson. In desperate need of money to further his time travel work, Nick sells his time-travel technology to Robertson, who soon turns out to be a ruthless, power-crazed SOB who allows various governments to use the technology for nefarious purposes.

I liked the fact that when the main characters initially travel 50 years into the future, what they find is only slightly different from their own time. It would have been too much of a cliche to have a future with robots and flying cars, and the absence of those cliches actually makes this aspect of the film more believable! (Sometimes a low budget can work in a film's favor.)

Anyhow, the relatively tranquil future the characters visit initially is significantly altered to a desolate, war-ravaged one, thanks to the reckless actions of Robertson. In order to avert this calamity, Nick and Lisa must try to obtain Nick's own time-travel plane (which is now heavily guarded) to go back in time and prevent Robertson from ever buying the time-travel technology in the first place!

"Time Chasers" is slightly flawed, but effective. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys science fiction or suspense films.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Two kinds of plaid. I'm a naked robot and even I know that', August 7, 2003

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J. L. K. "special_k" (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time Chasers (aka "Tangents") (VHS Tape)

Of all the movies that Mike and the 'Bots have riffed on, this continues to be one of my favorites. While I can't promise that the non-Mistied version will be as entertaining, I can promise you that the cheesy special effects (spirograph on an apple IIe) and ridiculous time-jumping plot will certainly make you laugh! Then again, I have a soft spot for cheesy low budget movies that try to use the mezannine at a Vermont Community College as the office for an Executive at a powerful company!!!

Rumor has it that the makers of 'Time Chasers' were very excited to have their movie showcased on MST3K, and rightly so!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One of the best movies ever MST3K, but not in the "so bad it's good" way, September 16, 2008

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Michael C. Haensel (Fresno, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Chasers (DVD)

This movie was filmed on a low budget in the early 90s. It's honestly not bad enough to be a great MST3K feature. At the end of the movie, I clapped a little and said "Given the time (of production) and budget they had, they could not have made a better movie." That's intended as a compliment. It's not a _great_ movie by any stretch, but it would have been a solid B or B- movie at the time. The effects are terrible now; at the time they would have been passable. The plot is actually solid, makes sense, and the story has a beginning and an end. You even understand why the characters do what they do. This isn't true of most cheaply-produced movies.

Worth a watch on MST3K for the plaid-on-plaid ensemble alone.