Written by Mr. Mouseburger 26th Feb 2006

Crazed megalomaniac Rethrick has developed, with the help of Jennings, a machine that can see into the future - the science is explained, but it makes my nose bleed just thinking about it so you will have to trust me that it all makes sense! However, now that Jennings has helped him design the machine, Rethrick decides to kill his old school friend.

Now, obviously such a powerful machine means Rethrick should have the clairvoyance enough to see that his intended course of action would result in failure, but not so, because apparently Jennings could rig the machine to make fake future outcomes, and so design his own escape.

I should point out that Jennings has had his memory of the past three years erased, so that he can't sell on this technology. He did however manage to leave thirteen of the most obscure clues for himself to try and fathom out how to defeat Rethrick.

Suffice it to say, he manages to get to the end of the film, using all but one of the clues, and he is on a gangway with Rethrick pointing a gun at him. All looks lost for our hero - but in the nick of time, the watch [one of his clues] he has on bleeps telling him to go. He duly complies just as a shot is fired - which we think is from Rethrick's gun. The bullet narrowly misses Jennings, but embeds itself into a rather surprised Rethrick, who, despite spending 800 thousand, billion, gazillion dollars* on a machine that can predict the future, did not forsee this. The adage "a fool and his money are easily parted" seems rather apt at this point!

*this is a slight over exaggeration, but not by much