I took the fam to this one and it was perfect fare with action, twists and turns, a healthy dose of revenge gore and a satisfying ending. 

I don’t really know the work of the McManus brothers, Kevin and Matthew. They have co-directed a few features and, judging by the slick feel of Redux Redux, they must be doing okay. It has one of the best opening images of the fest and, for a film about multiple universes, sets the story and world logic pretty quickly. 

Irene (Michaela McManus) is on a mission to kill the man, Neville (Jeremy Holm), who kidnapped and killed her daughter. She is from a universe where travel between multiverses was invented and has been jumping them and killing him hundreds and hundreds of times. We get glimpses of the varied ways and none are ever enough. 

In one universe, she meets and frees another girl he has kidnapped, Mia (Stella Marcus). She is a punky and spiky run away who adapts quickly to the whole idea of revenge and tags along with Irene, much to her annoyance.

There is plenty of action and tension, some flatter moments of dialogue that I think drag a little because of Mikayla McManus’s rather wooden acting chops. She seemed like an odd choice for such an accomplished film, and it was unsurprising when I looked her up and found that she is a sibling of the directors. She has a decent CV, even as an assistant district attorney on Law and Order: SVU, and maybe it is this that encourages her excess of facial acting, trying to show emotion and reaction when really it’s not needed, and which makes this feel a little bit like it was made for TV. Marcus on the other hand is great, in her second film acting role.

The directors do a really good job at keeping us oriented within multiple universe jumps. I think they also manage really well with the resolution of Irene‘s hunt that is presented in a way that doesn’t seem overly mawkish or twee. Something We Bury the Dead could have done with a bit more of.