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| Rating: Fair Distributor: New Line Cinema Rating: PG-13 Release Date: April 28th, 2000 Running Time: 1 hour, 57 minutes Genre: Thriller/Fantasy Director: Gregory Hoblit Cast: Dennis Quaid, James Caviezal, Shawn Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell, Andre Braugher, and Noah Emmerich. |
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| Plot: John Sullivan (James Caviezal) has stumbled upon a radio that can connect to his father 30 years prior due to some aurora that happens rarely. His father (Dennis Quaid) however is supposed to die the day after their discussion. So the son saves his life by supplying him with vital information. However, by doing so he has disrupted the path of time, allowing for a mass murderer to kill his mother who wasn't supposed to die. He and his father must find a way to stop the murderer and save her. Meanwhile the father gets into all kinds of trouble including arousing suspicion in their mutual cop friend's (Andre Braugher) mind. |
| Critique: This film is so absolutely ludicrous that even if you attempt to suspend disbelief you will not only fail, but become frustrated with the medium of idiocy in which this film operates on. What allows it not to be a total waste of time is the chemistry between Quaid and Caviezal. However, this film isn't sure what it's about. It wants to be cute, innocent, harmless fun, but inserts a evil, cruel serial killer. To top it off we are not only dealing with bending of time, but dramatic situations with no plausibility on their own without the background plot. It attempts to be original, but in doing so gets confused and incredibally ridiculous. I will say though, that there were some tense situations that did work out alright on their own and prooved to be entertaining. There weren't enough of those though, and more often than not the situations were too stupid to even be entertained by. While the screenplay wants to play out like an intelligent thriller it just becomes silly and out right frustrating. It ignores all logic of any shape or form, to craft a wild circus of a movie with no real point and direction. We know where the storyline is going, and although we might be able to suspend disbelief to accept the storyline we can't add to that by ignoring ridiculous scenes that accompany an absurd story. If you can accept all these things and be entertained than so be it, but I didn't buy it. As a whole it wasn't a terrible movie, just a movie in need of surgery. It therefore is not recommendable, however if you are willing to accept its insane plot maybe you will think otherwise. Altogether the film is not worth it in my opinion. review by supernothingman questions or comments? please email me at [email protected] |
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