2:22 (2017)

2:22
DirectorPaul Currie
Genrescience fiction film, thriller film
Runtime98 min
CountryUnited States
Box office$3.9 million

Plot

Dylan Branson works as an air traffic controller at John F. Kennedy International Airport; he possesses the ability to visualize constellations and patterns, and though he has a pilot's license, he has a fear of flying. He has a recurring dream of a shooting occurring at Grand Central Terminal at 2:22p.m. At work, Dylan begins hallucinating at 2:22p.m, only able to break out from his fugue state just in time to prevent a collision between two planes. Following this, he is suspended from work, pending a full board review.

Dylan begins to realize that the same things happen to him at the same time every day, and by 2:21 he somehow arrives at Grand Central Terminal, }}although not the same }}he always sees the same type of people: a businessman reading a newspaper, an older couple embracing, a party of school children, and a pregnant woman standing alone under the clock. At exactly 2:22p.m, an electrical malfunction causes the station glass to shatter.

At an aerial ballet, Dylan meets Sarah, who works at an art gallery with her ex-boyfriend Jonas and was a passenger on one of the nearly collided planes. Dylan and Sarah start a relationship upon discovering they have the same birthdate, but it is put on hold when Dylan starts a fight with Jonas upon discovering the latter's exhibition depicts the same events of the Grand Central Terminal he saw in his recurring dream.

Dylan learns through Sarah's colleague the story of a singer, Evelyn Mills, who is claimed to have been killed by her lover named Jake Redmond in the Grand Central Terminal murders 30 years ago out of jealousy. Dylan finds a packet of old letters written to Jake by Evelyn hidden in his apartment, revealing that Jake had once lived in his apartment.

Using the letters, Dylan tracks down Evelyn's sister, Catherine, who informs that Jake and Evelyn had also shared their same birthdays and fell deeply in love. She disbelieved the rumors told by a visiting detective named Noah Marks that Jake was a criminal. Catherine thinks that Noah, who is also the victim of the Grand Central Terminal murders, was also in love with Evelyn.

Piecing together, Dylan believes the supernova, which occurred on the day of Jake and Evelyn's deaths 30 years ago, the same day he and Sarah were born, is now reoccurring in a manner of a “cosmic cataclysm" and is convinced that he and Sarah are destined to relive Jake and Evelyn's fates. When Sarah visits him in his apartment, Dylan, fearing for her life, warns not to see him again. He contemplates suicide but stops when he sees a plane. A distressed Sarah confides in Jonas, who persuades her to go to Millhurst.

On his 30th birthday, Dylan discovers that the same patterns he's been experiencing had occurred to Jake on the day he died. He breaks into Jonas' studio, where he finds dozens of depictions of Sarah, a necklace identical to Evelyn's, and an empty gun case. Realizing that Jonas is obsessed with Sarah and planning to relive the Grand Central Terminal murders as Noah Marks, Dylan rushes for the Grand Central Terminal, whilst being pursued by the police.

After their flight is cancelled, Jonas buys tickets at Grand Central, where Sarah begins to see the same characters that Dylan described. It dawns on her that she is the pregnant woman under the clock, and she refuses to leave with Jonas. In a jealous rage, Jonas calls her Evelyn, and Sarah realizes that they are reliving the same fateful day. Dylan arrives and Jonas fires at Sarah but Dylan takes a hit himself to save Sarah's life. Jonas is then shot and killed by the arriving police officers.

It has transpired that, in his jealous rage, Noah gunned down both Jake and Evelyn, before he was himself shot dead by Jake in an act of self-defense, which he was framed for by the police.

After the incident, Dylan has recovered from his injuries and has now become a pilot, living happily with Sarah and their newborn baby.

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