This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I don't know how to approach this one."The Time Machine" is one of those stories that, rereading it, beings back vivid memories. One of my best friends in high school loaned it to me, I stored it away in my backpack for about a month and then...when we had a field trip to The Board of Trade, I scrounged it out and read it on the train ride.It was one of those stories that is so short I could rip through it in the hour and fifteen minutes between our small town and Chicago. To this day, every time I go back to it, it brings me back to 1997 and, to this day, I distinctly remember finishing it about the time the train stopped and I remember walking into the crowded city feeling like I was in a different world. The story had moved me out of reality so much Chicago seemed jarring.And then they made it into a movie, a remake of a movie and, watching it, I don't know, I didn't have that same sense of being in a totally different world that the book gave me...And the movie, in my mind, has to live up to that experience in some small way. Or at least give you that feeling that same feeling that the world was still spinning that one gets when they walk out of a movie and discover that it had rained.It's an engrossing story and The Time Machine didn't seem to whisk me away like the book did. I can't help but feel it deserved better.It felt like I was watching a movie and, honestly, it gave me the same since that Jackson's King Kong did, it felt like it was trying and horribly, miserably failed.I left feeling "meh," and that was after being excited walking into it, I mean, I read it in 1997 and they made a movie in 2002 and, I was expecting the same feeling. I had waited long enough.So, I don't know, I may be overly harsh on it just because I loved what the story did to me so much, the first time I read it and now, as an adult, it doesn't take me to another world, it takes me back to 1997 again, and high school, and that hour fifteen minute train ride to Chicago.So ultimately, it could be a halfway decent film that I just hate because the story had such a jarring effect on me when I first encountered it.

So many inaccuracies and problems with the layout of this movie. I'm giving it 3 stars because 1) when he first arrives "800,000" years in the future, the Time Machine clearly says well over 9.8 million years. 2) also when he arrives, Mara says that they all learn the old language, yet they act as if they have no idea what he said. 3) why would anyone detonate the moon? Of course, large explosions are going to have an effect, what about scientific study and the scientific method? I feel as if once Alexander left the 2030s any kind of tech is just out the window, for good. With no valid explanation why. Sure you can assume it's because the moon was blown apart, but come on, there'd be enough remaining knowledge documented to rebuild most if not all of what was there. Which brings to my next point. 4) He had to have everything required to make said Time Machine documented as well. And in the end, when it finally shows back to 19th century, they just leave all his stuff there. 5) Given this fact, from the point he built the Tine Machine it would have already existed, they go about through the different time periods like they don't know what he's talking about happened in the past. Sure "he disappeared into the future", but like I said all of his scientific papers with practical application would have been seen and improved on, from that point. With all these points, this movie is pointless, just like this review and my life. Anyways thanks for reading the analysis if you did. *Since this is a semi-nonlinear film, my reasons are also nonlinear. Byte!

Short and not so sweet, here were go. I love everything science fiction/fact. I've always been curious about time, time travel and paradoxes, so I thought I'd give this movie a watch. I have nothing to compare this film to because I haven't seen the original, but this particular film went from great, to somewhat boring. I enjoyed the atmosphere throughout the first quarter to half of the movie, and then it went very far-fetched and uninteresting (to me). I wish this film stuck to the 1800's - 2000's era because that's where the interesting story-line was. I wanted to see more time traveling as well, because the scenery changes throughout the years were very intriguing and borderline eye-candy to a sci-fi fan. The characters were pretty average and difficult to grasp onto. Visuals were nice. Plot wasn't overly enjoyable. It's worth a watch once, but I don't think I'd watch it again. So many other movies to watch. Mediocre. 5/10

I was thought, that is is a typical time-traveling Sci-fi until the first time travel, but from the second an on, it was a great one. The whole film is about the basic question: "What would have been if ...?" ... I could save my love? or ... I could change the past? - that's why I was just gave 8 stars, I think is is too mainstream, it should have shown us something brand new.The story by the way is very good, but I was thinking, that there were some contradictions with the simple logic, so it seemed to be unpredictable. I had no feelings like that, while watching all episodes of Star Trek.