Whoa, that was cool. It looked exactly like Call of Duty!

I was able to check out PRIMER a few times, and here’s my take on what happens when they try to perfect time travel for a few hours.

8:45am: The go to a U-Haul where they set the timer to turn the boxes on in 15 minutes (at exactly 9am), then they head to Russellfield- a town down the road.

9:00am: The timers tick down to zero and then turn the machines on. This is the moment Abe and Aaron will exit the machines, so it’s important that they are not standing there turning the machines, which is why they use the timers. Immediately afterwards Abe and Aaron arrive at the hotel in Russellfield. They decide to isolate themselves by closing windows and turning off any radios or TVs in the room. This is important because they are trying to avoid causality issues or paradoxes. They don't even touch the subject of causality. They are just trying to use the machine for their financial again. Later in the day: Abe and Aaron leave the hotel, go to the library to check some stock and mutual fund info, and head back to the garage.

3:00pm: They turn a switch so the machines can start cooling down. As the machines are turning off, they enter. They then spend the next 6 hours in the box while moving back in time.

9:00am: After exactly 6 hours they exit the box. They find themselves in the same room but the machines are now warming up. The rest of the day they have freedom to do whatever they want without running into their former selves because they know that their former selves are Russellfield. So they trade stocks and bet on basketball games.

I think this circle of events works. They could do this most days and make a fortune. But things are happening in the meantime that aren’t shown:

here’s where things get dicey and a bit difficult to comprehend:

- They find Mr, Granger outside of Aaron’s home at 2am in the morning. As they chase him down, he goes unconscious. (Mr. Granger passes out. He’s not allowed to speak with Abe and Aaron because he’s from the future. And if they speak, then Abe would go back in time and be sure not to tell him about the machine, thus making it impossible for Mr. Granger to travel back in time. Ahhhh the mystery of paradoxes!!!) Without success, they try to figure out how he got there. They each suspect each other told him about the machine sometime in the future. It’s obvious that he has used another machine and has come from the future. Abe freaks out, and uses a SECRETIVE Failsafe machine to travel back to very earlier in the week. He’s had the Failsafe machine running since then. Abe then knocks out his previous self and steps into his previous self's life. When Abe meets Aaron in the park Aaron is taking his cues from his ear piece. Abe’s tired because he’s been time traveling in the box for days. Aaron explains to Abe that he found the Failsafe machine in another room at the Uhaul facility. he’s been trying to perfect the moment where he beats up Rachel's ex-boyfriend by going back in time numerous times until he gets it perfect. He’s trying to become ‘prescient’. The next jump comes when he explains that he put one box INSIDE the Failsafe machine then setting it up again. It seems that this allows them to travel back in time at a faster rate then before. 1 box in the failsafe would mean that every minute in the box gets them back in time 2 minutes. Aaron traveled back in time to earlier in the week, knocked out his previous self by drugging his milk and then hid the body in the attic. He then began recording all his conversations in case he had to go back that far again. When they see that he came back to knock out the version of himself that had just minutes earlier knocked out the initial prior version of himself with the drugged milk. However, this time he was not able to subdue his former self.

So I think there are 3 versions of Aaron that we know of. 'A' was knocked out by 'B'. 'C' tried to knock out 'B', but couldn't. So B is living the life with the wife and kid. I don’t know where A is. And C left town. So he decides to leave his life- one of his doubles is already living it so it's clear that he can't hang around without constantly battling himself and Abe. The last scene indicates that he's trying to build an even bigger machine somewhere out in the world.

I know this doesn’t explain the entire movie, but it’s what I can piece together. I think i need to see it a few more times to fully understand everything that happens. The director doesn’t give much away, but if you look for the clues it seems that they’re all there. I just need it a few times to get more pieces…

The film kept dropping WAY too many hints about the M-5 Neural Net.. and when it did, I just *knew* that was going to be the ending. My only question was WHEN it was going to start... a definite "Vanilla Sky" moment there. I knew right from the start that it was going to be an M-5 "dream" ending, and I finally knew for sure as soon as soon as Jake hit Remy with that hook .. and the after the fade-to-black, you hear video corruption and flicking sounds. That's when I knew for sure.

Sadly, the "twist" in the story was also blatantly obvious right from the get-go. I knew, even before watching the film, that Remy's "accident" that necessitated him having an Artiforg implant was no accident. I knew it was set up by The Union, I just didn't know it was actually JAKE's idea.