They killed this movie, they just killed it. It started off
with a perfectly logical explanation of everything, and was even
intelligent, but then it took a turn and threw itself into an
era of extreme stupidity. Why is this? I don’t know. The second
it shows this “time machine”, the movie falls downhill. How Guy
Pearce all of a sudden reveals this time machine while he’s
still making his calculations for its structure, I don’t know.
There are a lot of things I have no clue about in this movie; at
offend times it just hands out useless facts for you to
mindlessly ponder.
The Time Machine begins as a
mathematician rushes to his date. There he will be proposing for
the first time. He takes his girlfriend for a walk in the park,
and there he gives her the ring. But not long after this, a
mugger threatens them with a gun, and wants all they have of
value, including the ring. They gladly give him everything, but
when he asks for the birthstone (not diamond), the woman is
reluctant to take it off her finger. In hopes of saving her the
pain, as well as everything they had, the man, played by Guy
Pierce, lunges for the mugger. In this, the gun is accidentally
misfired. The bullet hits the woman’s chest and she falls to the
ground. Her fiancé begins to take his anger out on the mugger,
but stops when he exclaims “Why did YOU do it, it was only a
RING”. This sends the mathematician into a long sorrow of
nothing but loneliness. Hence, he builds a time machine to
change what had happened that night. He proceeds to fly back in
time, and it works fine. Except for one thing, he finds that he
can’t change the past. Every time he tries to change the
location or aroma of the situation, there is always the same
outcome. His girlfriend always dies. When he tries one last time
to change the past, the machine is misfired; only this time into
the future.
Everything is very intelligent and
logical up to this moment But then when he actually goes to the
future, civilization has decreased back to prehistory, which
makes no sense at all. There are giant flesh-eating monsters
that control everything. This plot was stupid and confusing. It
was hard for me to follow, and I’m pretty good about staying
with the story. If I give you anymore information, it would
spoil the movies ending, not that I’m recommending this
disaster.
The only reason to see this movie is
if you would like to be confused. There is no mystery here, I’m
not even sure that there is a plot towards the end of the film.
At sometimes, The Time Machine even can make you sick to your
stomach; this is partially because of the terrible story, and
partially because of the cinematography with no sense of
direction. If you decide to give this movie a whirl, then you
will be baffled with more than one-million “What If?” questions.
Don’t even think about putting it into your DVD player!
-Danny, Bucket Reviews