Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Mark Addy
Scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to change t...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 23, 2002
Stats: 4,449 reviews
Guy Pearce travels back in time to recreate a half-arsed Victorian version of The Butterfly Effect, but when he is thwarted travels forward to find the world has been taken over by rubbish CGI and libraries have been turned into homages to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. Obviously di...( read more)
If you have read the book by H.G. Wells or seen the 1960 movie of the same name, you will realize this movie takes more liberties with the original book than the 1960 version does. Mind you the basis of Eloi and Morlocks and that the Eloi being the source of food for the Morlock...( read more)
ya hoped with all the brand spank new techno stuff that it would improve on the original...the lure of every remake, failed again here.
I do not remember much from this film, but I seem to recall decent performances and great visuals that lack the philosophical depth they should have.
Starts with a certain amount of promise but quickly descends into a lame, muddled, ridiculous action clunker. Orlando Jones' character sucks a fat dong. Jeremy Irons' character is weird, baffling and out of place. It's so freaking stupid that anyone can speak perfect English 800,...( read more)
You have to stop and wonder how a film that was made 42 years before this one, based on the same book and with less dazzling special effects can be better than this one! The secrets of time travel will have been discovered, indulged in and rejected as boring before I see this pie...( read more)
A solid remake from a classic H.G.Wells novel. First off the film does have a great cast. Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons and Orlando Jones all were very good in it. Plus the film has some great F/X and action sequences. This film does change the story a bit from the original film and n...( read more)
... there's something wrong with a time-travel movie that allows an audience's interest to drift so that we have time to worry over where he's parked, and whether he remembered to take his key. full review
The Time Machine is a witless recycling of the H.G. Wells story from 1895, with the absurdity intact but the wonderment missing. full review
[E]ntertaining though hardly profound... full review
THE TIME MACHINE
Send me back into time, as there is more glory in the past than there is in the future.
oh come on it wasnt THAT bad, the music was beautiful and such as well
This movie felt more like it should have been a mini series on tv rather than a movie but overall it wasn't that bad
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