Lack of good storyline.

A Surprisingly Unforgettable Movie!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I was pleased watching an older movie that kept me watching on the edge of my seat AND had a shocker (but good) ending. I didn't feel like "OMG how lame" or "why did I waste my time watching this crap" after it was over. Everyone here who says don't listen to the negative reviews are right......because it's worth watching!!!

After their parents are killed in a fire, Sam and his sister Jenna grow up supporting each other, Sam paying for his sister's rent, and Jenna ensuring that Sam is safe while he time-travels to solve murders.There is a scene in The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations where Sam (Chris Carmack) rants about how the more he jumps back and forth between past and present, the more it messes with his brain. I totally understand how he feels: I was confused on my first watch and I imagine that if I were to go back to 'observe' any more times I would only become more baffled.I can accept the premise that he can jump back to his younger self and see events that have already happened, but I haven't a clue how his character always manages to be in the right place at the right time, and the more I think about it the more my head hurts. I also fail to understand that, when he interferes in past events, he sometimes wakes up in the bath of icy water where he started, but at other times, returns to find himself on a couch. And when he returns having altered his future by changing the past, why does he have no recall of his current new life. Confused? You will be, if you try to figure out all of the paradoxes and loop holes in this film.So don't.Have a few beers, try to not think about the many awkward questions thrown up by the convoluted twists and turns in the script, and the chances are you'll have a reasonably fun time. The film is well acted, competently directed, and features several scenes that will definitely appeal to those who like their movies on the trashy side, most notably a totally gratuitous sex scene with a big-breasted barmaid (Sam screwing her on top of a glass topped coffee table, the camera shooting from underneath) and some pretty vicious death scenes, as Sam's meddling with time results in a serial killer, who offs their victims with a power-tool.The film also ends with a fun but silly twist that involves his Sam's sister Jenna wanting to make out with her brother (nothing like a spot of incest to make a film more entertaining), and which requires Sam to go back in time and effectively kill his sibling (even though it looks like he could easily have saved his entire family from the fire and created a time-line in which they all lived happily ever after).

The second direct to DVD sequel to "The Butterfly Effect" does start with some promise. The Detroit backdrop does give the movie some unique color, and the first few minutes promise that this entry will have a somewhat different storyline than with the first two movies. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for the movie to start having problems. In some aspects, the movie seems to be starting at chapter two, since there are some glaring plot details that are either not properly explained or explained at all. Also, the hero in the movie isn't particularly sympathetic; he seems somewhat reckless and thoughtless. The biggest problem with the movie, however, is that the so-called "big twist" near the end is no surprise at all - you'll be able to guess who is behind the killings (and why) long before the revelation. It's probably a good thing this franchise ended after this entry.

"Butterfly Effect 3" seems determined not to copy the original film slavishly like the first sequel did, and it is indeed sufficiently different to hold your interest. The side (or should I say the butterfly?) effect of that is that its concept of time travel is less internally consistent than that of the previous two movies: here, the hero sometimes goes back to places he's been in the past by getting inside his younger selves' brains, and sometimes, if he concentrates hard enough, he goes back to places and times he's never been in, which means he time-travels physically and not just mentally. Perhaps because of these inconsistencies, the film successfully puts across the feeling of displacement that a few too many mind / time trips can cause. It all leads to a twisted but rather predictable revelation. Warning: some of the violence is exceedingly grisly. **1/2 out of 4.