A college professor goes on a quest to find out what happened to some missing hippie explorers back in the 70's. He discovers the location of their abandoned van, then he discovers the cave they went to explore. The cave, it turns out, is a trap where time passes extremely slowly. Spending just a few seconds in the cave means a couple of weeks have passed outside. This gets some of his students worried, and they set out to find their missing mentor, ultimately getting stuck in the time trap with him.
“Time Trap” doesn't have the best story or the most talented cast, but it does science fiction right. They take a fairly simple idea and really explore it faithfully. Once in the cave, for example, the characters look out the opening to see rapidly flashing lights, which they eventually realize are days and nights flashing by. The cave, we soon learn, is full of visitors from many eras, separated by hundreds or thousands of years. Once in the cave, it all gets compressed, bringing all these explorers from different eras together, sometimes violently.
I wouldn't have minded seeing this concept explored by a better director with a bigger budget and a better cast, but I would have to say that “Time Trap” is good enough, given its limitations. None of the weaknesses were bad enough to distract from the intriguing time-warp story-line, and I found the film really entertaining. One other strength is that the movie is only 95 minutes long. This is a movie that knows its limitations and doesn't want to become a time trap of its own.
3 stars out of 5
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