April 10, 2021
Park Shin-hye in a still from Sisyphus: The Myth.
This article contains spoilers.
1.5/5 stars
Time-travel stories are a double-edged sword. They offer limitless juicy narrative possibilities that can be retroactively rejigged. But because anything can happen and then be changed, keeping the stakes raised for the audience becomes a challenge.
Brainy sci-fi, such as the American indie film
Primer, explores the dizzying theories of time paradoxes, while something less demanding, like
Avengers: Endgame, will use it for a narrative do-over. Sci-fi-action-romance K-drama
Sisyphus: The Myth bets the house on time travel and it’s a gamble that doesn’t even remotely pay off.