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  read more... )he past. Testing his theories with a time machine of his own invention, Hartdegen is hurtled 800,000 years into the future. There he finds a post-apocalyptic world where he discovers that mankind has been divided into the hunter... and the hunted.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Simon Wells

Release Date: March 8, 2002

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DVD Release Date: July 23, 2002

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  • April 30, 2009
    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)smayed by this, he travels to the far future to find the human race has been split into two; one half the offspring of the extras from Waterworld and Ewoks, the other giant Muppets who round them up in a fashion not unlike that in Planet Of The Apes. Jeremy Irons turns up to collect his paycheck dressed up as a reject From Battlefield Earth before slinking off, muttering "never again..." (you said that after Dungeons & Dragons, Jeremy) and I get the uncontrollable urge to invent a time machine to so I can travel to a point in the future after this film has finished. Basically, a classic of English literature has been turned into a cornball pastiche of every junk sci-fi film of the past 40 years fronted by an Australian soap actor and a pop star in a see-through top. That Time Machine was a warning of what will happen to mankind if it abandons books and learning. This Time Machine is a warning of what will happen if Hollywood script writers abandon all books and learning.
  • August 31, 2008
    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)s is still there. I think they could have done a better job of the remake.
  • June 24, 2008
    not great but i did like it
  • April 23, 2008
    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.
  • March 14, 2008
    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.
  • November 16, 2009
    A slightly weird movie =)
  • October 21, 2009
    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)000 years in the future.
    Really lazy and stupid movie.
  • October 5, 2009
    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)ce of crap again.
  • September 29, 2009
    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)ovel. But even with all this update and better F/X I still prefer the original movie made about the novel the Time Machine. And the novel is much better than either film. But still worth a watch if you enjoyed the original movie or the novel. Also worth checking out if your just a sci-fi movie fan.
  • September 27, 2009
    Good re-make of the '70's film.

Critic Reviews


March 8, 2002
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

... unlike the shiny machine at its center, its timing is off, and it never quite soars. full review

March 8, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

... 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

March 8, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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

March 7, 2002
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

[E]ntertaining though hardly profound... full review

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Comments


  • HELLAdown
    August 30, 2007
    i RATHER LiKE iT...................
    i THiNK iT WAS COOL... =]]
  • sakinokia
    July 13, 2007
    THE TIME MACHINE
    Send me back into time, as there is more glory in the past than there is in the future.
  • raaaaannnndyyyyy
    June 10, 2007
    oh come on it wasnt THAT bad, the music was beautiful and such as well
  • jesse51234
    March 3, 2007
    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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