A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Blistering performances.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

I'll follow you down is a time travel film which is original in its story and a well scripted, well crafted mystery. It stars Haley Joel Osment and he is absolutely terrific. It also stars Gilliam Anderson and Rufus Sewell who both give outstanding performances. The story has a great pace to it easing us into the characters and setting the story up nicely for the rest of the film to unfold. If you like sci-fi mystery dramas then this will not disappoint you. It has just the right amount of each to keep you completely engaged for the whole film. Based on the fact I love sci-fi, a good mystery and a good family feel drama I am rating this an impressive 9 out of 10. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!!

I'm not a sci-fi fan, but I do like a puzzle - this didn't deliver.What we get is an emotional family drama, with an excellent performance by Anderson that gives ballast to the story. Pity she leaves early on. After that I found it sentimental.The vagary of fate in parallel universes is pointed up well, but the working out of the puzzle is a bit blah. And the second act is too long, leaving too little time in the end for the time travel - just 20 mins. That's when the audience should be having fun. The gunshot is unexpected, but not really satisfying - plus it's an easy out for the film maker in avoiding the cheesiness of meeting Einstein.The lead actor is very confident, convincing in his early scenes, but didn't deliver any great line and didn't look the part.The string music is conventional.

Why only a 6 for a movie that should have at least an 8 rating? This is the time travel movie for those who doubt that time travel would be possible. Using a valid theory from quantum mechanics in physics the Everett interpretation of Many Worlds theory {Many- worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). That theory stands in modern physics as possible and this movie makes it real. Not one of those time travel movies that keeps throwing you back and forth like it is easy - this one takes the subject seriously and only asks that you allow one main event to be altered - Could it happen that way? - Maybe, but you gotta love the way they do it - they make it seem real. Good acting, good drama and character development, well directed with a good even pace - If your tired of watching the same type of probably not time travel films give this one a shot and you too might say - Maybe, just maybe it could happen."The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." -Arthur C. Clarke"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke

I'll Follow You Down is NOT a typical scifi-suspense-thriller. There are no automatic weapons or time cops. There is no high-tech research centre. There is in fact no "action" as delivered by most cinema these days, and only minimal, situationally necessary violence. The film is presented and paced like a stage play. The first hour (or more) is used to set the stage for the decisive events that occur in the final act, if you will. It is certainly slow-paced and "talkie," and calls the viewer back to another, earlier era in film-making. Honestly, the acting is not gripping, the characters aren't deeply developed, and suspension of disbelief in the technological ideas is difficult, if not impossible. Nonetheless, there is a level at which this modestly-budgeted made-in-Canada effort does succeed. That is, I found myself truly caring how everything would play out for the characters, and for how they would resolve their struggles with their dilemmas... which were mostly further losses following (minor spoiler) a father's disappearance early on. The themes were universal enough to be engaging. I'd say that the majority of the issues addressed were unstated, and the film's resolution of most of them was equivocal at best. The time travel theme has been much better developed elsewhere, yet, this film still had something, perhaps unique, to say. Finally, the "disappeared" father must face a stark dilemma, and the final minutes of the film deliver the moral of the story, which, if simplistic, did not ring false, at least in "this timeline." In terms of contemporary productions, an effort like Continuum develops a far more sophisticated and complex vision of time travel --- one that makes you stretch, and stretch again. This film doesn't do that at all, nor does it attempt to. The idea of time travel is really secondary to the primary and overriding moral theme. But... please allow me to conclude it like this: Had this been a stage production, it would in fact have worked --- and that is not easy to say for most ideas developed in science fiction film. This is a slow boiler for a quiet and contemplative evening, and not much at all like most other science fiction movies.