Vick - Victoria - is a cool, wisecracking agent for a secret U.S. government task force, assigned to right the wrongs of the past through time travel. She is at home with her partner/boyfriend when killer Mac and his gang break in and shoot him dead, steal his time remote, and zap themselves 30 years into the past to abduct ten-year-old Bryon Mackey. Enraged, Vick pursues them into the past, where Bryon's dad yells at Mac to release his son. Mac replies, "I am your son," and vanishes with the boy into the future. As Vick enters her co-ordinates to chase them again, Larry touches her, thus propelling himself forward with her through time. Rather than zapping him back right away, she enlists his help in catching Mac.
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She tells him that his son, now 40 and known as Mac, faces the death penalty in several states. He turned to crime after growing up torn between loving and fearing his dad. (Larry did love his wife and son deeply, but his good intentions for them were undermined by his volatile temper, and it got worse when he lost his job and started drinking.) Jeanine, once Larry's loving wife, is now his bitter widow, and despises him. Nevertheless, she gives them the address to Mac's warehouse hideout. Larry persuades Vick that just catching Mac and retrieving the remote are not enough; he wants to redo the past so that his son won't become a killer at all. Meanwhile, Mac has his groupie Lucy reprograming the remote so that he can jump into the 23rd century, escaping his life of crime and its consequences, and sparing Bryon his future misery. Vick, Larry, and Jeanine dodge gunfire to snatch Bryon. Vick starts the transmission sequence to take them back to the 1970's, but Jeanine stops it, saying Larry hasn't truly changed, and if they go back now, it will all play out the same as before.
Mac captures Larry. As a prelude to killing him, he takes him back in time to watch himself beating and berating the teenaged Bryon. Back in the present, Larry pleads with Mac for a second chance. Mac just scoffs. But Bryon is watching and thinking. Can he really trust Mac's promises of a nicer future? Or should he trust his father? Using the gun skills Mac has taught him, he makes his choice.
The review of this Movie prepared by vjm
