The Butterfly Effect
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.
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- Cast:
- Ashton Kutcher , Amy Smart , Melora Walters , Elden Henson , William Lee Scott , Eric Stoltz , Ethan Suplee
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A Masterpiece!
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
I chose to watch this movie, because I missed it in theaters, like Ashton Kutcher in comedic films, and wanted to see his acting range in this. He's surprisingly good. This movie, overall though, is pretty unpleasant. There aren't moments of humor to give you a break, it just hits you over and over and over, metaphorically speaking. Amy Smart was good in it, too, playing multiple versions of her character. The acting is really the highlight of this. It's not that enjoyable of a film, because of all the nasty, horrible things people do in it. If you want to watch it for the acting, I'm sure you'll be impressed, but otherwise, it's pretty unpleasant. 4/10
I really love it! It's my favorite movie, I see it more than once.It gives us a great life lesson demonstrating how each action, however small it is may have secondary effects, so I think that before doing something we have to ask twice. It gives us a great philosophical teaching! They should show it in schools
Sooo first of all. I can't recite you any line from the film, but it ain't a bad thing at all.The plot got better with the progression of the movie. The blank spots got filled and made it that "ooow sh*t mate how effed up is this guys life?" like for real this kid has lived an eccentric existence. This film made me think, question the concept of existence. But it more to do with my current personal state of affairs. It made this more profound for me than the average watcher.Nonetheless, I recommend this movie to the lost ones. Life has meaning taking it is bullshit now. Just live fulfilled That is what I got from it. Take this review with a grain of salt. It's me first one and I'm not sure this is how reviews are supposed to be written but hey... let me know.
As I watched the Butterfly Effect, I wondered if the writers were influenced by an episode of Star Trek Voyager titled, "Year of Hell". The story premise was exactly the same; a man (Ashton Kutcher) is driven by the love of a woman to travel back in time to rectify a mistake but whatever he does results in a new future that is no less nightmarish than before. Overall, I found it to be an semi-interesting yarn but eye-rolling ridiculous as Kutcher keeps going back in time and coming up with idiotic fixes that naturally result in a worse future. His final solution to avoid ever having befriended the love of his life is predictable and flat but it had to end somehow.