This is a long review. The summary is: This movie sucked.
There are many things that I did not like about this film. Overall it was very boring and didn't catch my interest at all. I nearly fell asleep before the 2 hours of it were over.
This film has many small conflicts… More
This is a long review. The summary is: This movie sucked.
There are many things that I did not like about this film. Overall it was very boring and didn't catch my interest at all. I nearly fell asleep before the 2 hours of it were over.
This film has many small conflicts as opposed to one large problem. Every time one of the small problems were solved, it seemed like the movie was over or could've ended right then and there. For example, the wedding- they do end up having a great wedding, the fight- it gets resolved, the miscarriages- they finally do have a daughter, etc. It just seemed like an ongoing trend and I really didn't like it. I kept thinking the movie was ending soon, but unfortunately it was not.
The script also needed a lot of work. "Will you marry me?" "No" "What?" "I mean yes! I just wanted to assert my freedom of will!" What the hell? Why did they have the character say that? Why couldn't she have just said "Yes" and saved five minutes of my life? It was a very stupid script. I suppose they put that part in there just for a small twist, but it was completely unnecessary and a waste of time. Then every time someone found out Henry was a time traveler they said "Oh, Shit!" EVERY TIME. They said it 4 times throughout the movie. It drove me crazy. Were they trying to be funny? Can't these people say anything else? It was so annoying and it seemed like the writer couldn't think of anything else for the characters to say.
The entire plot, I thought, was so stupid. So there is a time traveler who cannot change the future, cannot stop himself from travelling, and cannot choose where to time travel to? How boring is that? He can't change the future? Don't ALL time travelers change the future? It was just not a very well thought out idea. Then the fact that he time travels NAKED. Please, spare me. He has to break into houses/stores when he travels to steal clothes. How lame. There's nothing I like more than staring at someone's ass the entire movie. This movie goes against everything I thought I knew about time traveling. I give them props for being original, but it was a dumb idea all around. Some parts were sad, and I admit I got teary eyed at a few parts (that may have been because of the movie, or because it's allergy season...), but I never actually cried because I remembered how stupid the plot was. I also did not feel sorry for Claire or the daughter *SPOILER* when Henry died. People's fathers and husbands die every day and they will never be able to see them again. The daughter is a freaking time traveler and is able to control it to some extent, she can see her father any time she wants. Claire also saw her husband after he died. She should be thankful she even saw him at all, not all families can say they saw their loved ones months after they died.
There were so many unnecessary characters in this movie. The doctor, the mother, the brother, the father, etc. All those characters could've been taken out and it wouldn't have made the slightest difference to the movie. Those characters were pointless. The writer did not give them any important roles to play, therefore they had no effect on the storyline at all. Without the excess characters, that leaves Claire, Henry and their two daughters- the time traveling family. The whole movie revolved around the family, and we all know the family was boring. I say they should've made the background characters more important (like the mother) so that the movie was more watchable.
The other thing I had a problem with was the fact that Henry looks exactly the same at age 20, 30, and 40. They don't do much to change his appearance. I don't know about you, but my father did not look like a 40 year old at age 20. Sure they changed the hair a bit, but what else did they do that was noticeable? Not much. They should've gotten better make-up artists or something to actually convince me this man was the age he said he was as he was time traveling.
The time traveling also seemed very sloppily done to me. Throughout the film, I constantly thought "What the hell?". One minute he's over in his house, next minute he's in a train station, then he's at the zoo- it's like he's freaking teleporting to random places. Plus he looks the same age in every scene so it's hard to follow his time traveling adventures. Back to the Future executed their time travelling adventures very well. You always knew what was going on, you were never lost, and it was an exciting story where people could actually CHANGE the future, rather than just visit it.
Some parts of the movie were very confusing and very inconsistent. The beginning of the movie he didn't recognize Claire. Why didn't he recognize her? He recognized her everywhere else! The very beginning of the movie reminded me of Deaths of Ian Stone- the only difference was that Ian died and woke up in new places, and Henry disappears then reappears in new places. Then Ian in Deaths of Ian Stone, couldn't remember a thing after he ended up in the new place. When Henry didn't know what was going on when he met Claire, I immediately thought Deaths of Ian Stone.
Overall the movie was just so bland and boring. A guy who can't change the future or do anything fun with the future- time travels. Then he *SPOILER* dies at the end. Of course you don't know how he dies. I actually got excited for once and was eagerly awaiting his death to see something awesome happen. Unfortunately, I was let down....majorly. *SPOILER* You knew he got shot, but why? I was hoping it would be some car chase or something sweet like a gun fight, but you know what happened? It was an accidental shot that killed him. The hunter was aiming at the elk, but missed and got the time traveler instead. BORING. I guess it calms the audience to know it wasn't an intentional killing, but I really thought something great was about to go down. The whole movie was so bland and uninteresting, I was just praying for something cool to happen. Is that too much to ask?
This movie is a complete waste of time. I suggest you watch all three Back to the Futures to see what a real time traveling movie looks like. Don't waste your time on this movie. It's boring and stupid. However, I do recommend you watch this movie if you have trouble sleeping. This movie is guaranteed to make you fall asleep.
