Was a suspense movie a number of years ago about a device that would flash and render the person flashed ,as if the froze in time until the flash wore off. They had no idea the where even done this way . Of course the evil persons had control of the device and used it for evil .

It's this one. I didn't make the connection until another poster mentioned this flash gun was in the same movie with the commercials;

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