Set in Puerto Rico (I'm not really sure why it mattered because it could have taken place anywhere), Mary (Rachelle Lefevre) moves into a new apartment to escape from her abusive ex-husband. While she is unpacking the land line phone starts to ring. She picks it up and hears a strange woman's voice asking for a Bobby. She tells her that Bobby doesn't live here anymore and hangs up. Since she is still battling it out with her ex-husband Steven (Ed Quinn) in court, she goes to therapy. Her therapist tells her that she should get out and make friends. She decides to take a French class at the university, but accidentally goes into the wrong classroom. That's how she meets John (Stephen Moyer), a math professor.
She continues to get strange phone calls on her land line and the conversations get stranger and stranger. The woman on the other end sounds desperate for someone to talk to, so finally Mary decides to continue the conversation. The woman on the other end, Rose (Lorna Raver) is also in a bad relationship. Mary gives her some advice and tells her to get rid of him. That's when Rose mentions about him just getting back from Vietnam. It turns out that Rose is from the past. In order to prove it she draws a picture in the pantry. At first Mary thinks it is some sort of joke, but after doing a little bit of research and asking her neighbor George (Luis Guzman!!) she starts to believe the story. Especially when she wakes up one morning and sees that her pantry has a brick wall closing it off. When Rose calls she says that she took Mary's advice and got rid of Bobby.
From that point on Rose gets more stalkerish, asking questions about Mary's life and even appearing as a shadowy figure in the back of Mary's childhood pictures. She meets up with John, who is becoming a new love interest, and he explains (because I think he is suppose to be a nerdy character) that someone's past is like a river and when she gave advice to change the river the course changed and she is the only one that remembers the old past because she is the cause of it. Things continue to get worse as Rose starts threatening Mary and those around her.
Now call me a nerd, but I'm a fan of time travelling movies. However, they do get pretty complicated just from a logical standpoint. If you think of it, one little action could have a momentous change on the future. But whenever Rose would change something hardly anything was different, which was pretty annoying. The other thing that the movie lacked was anytime there was a change, don't you think the character would gain knowledge or memories of it right away? It didn't even seem to phase her until she realized someone was missing. The other big problem that I have was the fact that the Stephen Moyer was suppose to be a nerd, but looked like he does in True Blood. At one point, I think I heard him say he was a Trekkie. I don't buy it. Plus, his accent seemed weird. Like he was trying to be American but kept slipping into his True Blood accent. It wasn't really scary more like a sci-fi with all the time traveling. But it wasn't really suspenseful or horrific other than a dream sequence. I do like the idea of the story though. How are you suppose to defend yourself against someone in your past? I do think the main character was really clever at times and did a great job thinking on her feet. Bout time I watched a movie with a smart female.
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