maze runner star dylan 0'brien is fred, a troubled young man whose boring corporate life unravels wheniend leads him back into the past. i do remember cindy williams, she just vanished. maika monroe, who made such an impact in the 2014 chiller it follows, is cindy, the girl who disappeared some years ago after a night on the mysterious new drug mercury. i don't take it to be like them. as fred struggles to remember what happened that night, so his audit adult life is overtaken by the half remembered dreams of youth and high school — of the lives he could have lived and it may indeed be living. fred. written and directed by christopher macbride, flashback lifts a central rift from the matrix, brushes shoulders with the recent time travel drug movie synchronic, which was shot around the same time, and owes passing debts to everything from rianjohnson�*s brick, to richard kelly's cult classic. yet despite being derivative, it's also better than you'd expect with macbride pulling off some impressive visual coups, while 0'brien does a convincing job of portraying a man caught in a quarter l