Overview: A widowed innkeeper battles a band of disaster-groupies from the future with explosive results. Ben Wilson (Jeff Daniels) and his daughter (Ariana Richards) buy an old Victorian mansion and begin renovations with plans to open up an inn. Their first guests are a strange and mysterious covey of tourists led by the eccentric Madame Lovine (Marilyn Lightstone).

In an emotionally charged and suspenseful race against time, Ben must battle the seductive time bandits as well as his own personal demons in an attempt to save his daughter and the town from total destruction.

In GRAND TOUR, David Twohy (Pitch Black. The Arrival) has created an action-adventure sci-fi thriller that examines a futuristic force of evil - with a climax that leaves the viewer in absolute awe.

Blu-ray Verdict: In, to give it its full US name, The Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, and which is based on the novella Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, which originally appeared in the September 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction (although it was credited to Lawrence O’Donnell, a pseudonym used a few times by Kuttner and Moore), and Timescape (as it was called in the UK), was one of the late night films I personally always loved to catch, lying on the sofa before bed.especially those with a hankering for/in time travel!

As we learn within The Grand Tour, it talks about how anyone traveling from the future cannot come back and change the past, as this would change the future itself. Something we now all know and take fro granted, sure, but this was back in 1991.

The movie is a little slow in the beginning, and could have been much better technically, in my humble opinion, but it is not bad for what it was set out to be, that’s for sure.

Furthermore, it answers many questions and also questions many of the theories that currently exist in the scientific world! It has characters that you can care about, because they’re written well in the story. Ariana Richards is just right in this pre-JURASSIC PARK role, for example. Plus we get nice performances from character actors like George Murdock.

There are some fairly decent twists to the story, because, well, there is actually a story playing out! Which means the actors get some decent lines and don’t spend their time screaming or saying things like Gotta kill a few people, or something just as insightful.!

In closing, the special effects shots are kept to a minimum, most likely due to budget, so they matter less here, and we get nearly all of the camera time on the characters. And that makes the film work on the most highest of levels for me.

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