Paradox is an American science fiction action film written and directed by Michael Hurst.
Zoë Bell and Adam Huss play scientists who invent a time travel machine.
; Lewis Aberricki, a technician whose drunken accident left him reliant on a wheelchair; Randy Fraker, a brilliant astrophysicist; Jim and Gale, who are dating; and their mysterious boss, Mr. Landau.
Meanwhile, Jim tells Gale that his father was a compulsive gambler who died poor, a fate he will do anything to avoid.
Aberricki accesses footage on the camera, which plays the recorded session where Jim's teammates trash him.
Landau needed them to create this prototype time machine, which he says causes brain damage, before he could perfect a safer version.
The version of Jim from 11pm sees his future self kidnap Gale and flee to the elevator, which the NSA agents have repaired.
When the NSA agents rescue her, she reveals her real name is Maxine Devlin, and she handles the disc thoughtfully.
Writer-director Michael Hurst was influenced by James Cameron's films, and he named most of the characters after The Terminator's cast and crew.
Hurst cast Bell because he wanted a strong female lead, much like the Terminator series.
The accent disappears later in the film, once Landau admits that he is an American from the future, not an upper class British businessman.
[3] Martin Tsai of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the central mystery is interesting enough to distract from the film's flaws, but the writing suffers from a tendency to explicitly state everything instead of showing it.