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Haunted by her father’s disappearance 30 years ago, Stella returns to her hometown to care for her ailing mother. One night, her father contacts her through an old radio. Stella must travel through time to bring him back by activating the Taklee Genesis. This film has many entertaining moments if you don’t take it too seriously. It’s a sci-fi mystery based on a time travel story that combines elements of drama, comedy, horror, and fantasy. At times, it seems like the director has a catalog of movie scenes from which a random element is chosen and included in the film. Consequently, the audience gets to see a crazy assortment of aliens, dinosaurs, spaceships, zombies, kaiju, and many other things you wouldn’t expect. As a result, it feels like a more generic version of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One. As with many time travel movies, plot holes are hard to avoid. This film has a large number of them, often downplayed in dialogues with phrases like “It’s OK,” “Don’t worry,” or “Everything will be fine.” While the cast seems to be trying their best, the acting remains another weakness of this film. The British father at the beginning spoke as if he was recording an English listening comprehension chapter for elementary school. The mother didn’t even shed a proper tear when Velan disappeared. The funniest character of all was Mordin, the mute survivor who saves the day when everyone else despairs. Overall, we give Taklee Genesis a solid seven out of ten. We saw the original version with English subtitles in a theater.