Powerful

Fresh and Exciting

Admirable film.

Absolutely Fantastic

Watching the movie last night on the TV i can surely make some remarks: Good beginning. It was entertaining the way that guy went through the disasters and appeared in the pictures.. it made you think about who is he and where does he come from. The part that he is a Thrill Seeker sucked. I am sure there could have been other ideas, better than that. I liked the love story between the main two characters and the general idea of going through the time. This is not the place to comment on the effects of going into time =>there are a lot of places where that can be discussed but in the general it was interesting. It was an enjoyable movie to watch although the ending was very predictable ( we don't like that now-a-days, do we? ) I give it a 5/10 as for encouraging but it could have been much better.

Zapping through the movie channels last evening, I came across: Next feature presentation: Thrill Seekers with Martin Sheen. I wonder if one could sue the channel for this kind of tendentious (but not factually wrong) publicity? Anyway, it made me decide to watch. Hardly any Martin Sheen, but entertaining for sure, and with surprisingly decent special effects for a TV movie. The plot is intelligent, and would be a good starting point to get people to discuss the paradoxes of time travel. Suppose you could go back and kill Hitler before he came to power, would you do it? But if you would, can you be certain nothing worse would happen? And how would it affect your own life? Would you still exist, even? (My parents met because of the war.) Or: if you go back to a time after you are born, can you meet yourself? All of this is hardly original, of course. SF writers in the golden age (which was sadly ended by Star Wars, shifting from intelligent writing to blockbuster special effects) frequently tackled the issue, for instance describing the butterfly effect: a firm organises time trips to the Jurassic, where thrill seeking (again!) hunters can kill a dinosaur a fraction of a moment before it would have died, thus not altering the time line. But one hunter stumbles and accidentally kills a butterfly. He gets back to his starting date, but the killed butterfly has changed the time line and this new line turns out to be the hunter's worst nightmare. Something similar happens in Thrill Seekers. But here the protagonist has the means to go back in time to change a future he has already experienced. This, of course, was already obvious from the moment they take the laptop from the disaster tourist. In fact, Merrick could have used that device to go back to before he boarded the plane and, using some kind of subterfuge, a bomb alarm for instance, avert the plane crash, and the subway crash, and the fire... But we wouldn't have had the same film then.One question of logic though. If Merrick goes back into his original time line, the time guards would also be in there, but unaffected by what will happen later. In the film, they follow Merrick back from the future. The film does not explain this. But the question doesn't end there. If you go back to when you were 3 hours earlier, you would also not yet have any memories of what was going to happen those next 3 hours. Merrick and the time guards should not have had any knowledge of the disaster happening 3 hours in the future.I also wonder how the title sequence relates to the film. I admit I wasn't paying a lot of attention, trying to figure out when Martin Sheen would be mentioned, but in retrospect I wonder if there wasn't any subtle message in the sequence?

I started watching this movie because I saw Martin Sheen was starring, but as I gradually found out, he only appears on a flickering screen about 3 to 4 times for less than a minute. It's clear he's only on the casting list to attract an audience. But in the end it really didn't matter, I was somehow a very entertaining movie, the bad acting didn't spoil it. Also you could predict the plot quite easily but that didn't make it less interesting, somehow even more interesting. Do not wonder how it is that everything is so coincidental. Just watch it with a pizza and a beer after work and you'll have a good time watching this B-movie.

Who would have thought that the guy from Starship Troopers would be in a bad movie? Don't waste your time. It couldn't even hold my attention for its entirety. The premise is solid, as far as made-for-TV science-fiction goes, but the execution is shoddy. Again, don't waste your time.