Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

creationstems I give this film a 10/10 for personal reasons, though I think an average score of 5.9/10 is an awful joke. It goes to show the mainstream are as often wrong as they are right. The Time Machine has everything I love in a movie: existentialism, loss, abstract symbolism and reflection, mystical fantasy of the serious kind, bold adventure and traveling to the far-far reaches of the future, a beautiful and passionate main character, a powerful lesson learned in the end, and easily one of the best soundtracks I have ever heard. Listen to halfway through Stone Language. This movie itself is up there with Mulholland Dr.

Dylan Gallagher 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

weejockxxx Well, that was a waste of time. Having finally got to see the Guy Pearce version of The Time Machine I can honestly say I wish I hadn't bothered. The Rod Taylor original didn't follow the book totally but this one just seemed to throw the book in the bin. Instead of a man tired of the inevitability of war we have a 'hero' who is obsessed by his failure to save his girlfriend from dying. Having travelled into the past several times to try and save her he now decides to travel to the future where he finds the beautiful Eloi menaced by the dreadful Morlocks and that's where the similarities end. For a film that was made 42 years after its illustrious predecessor, it seems even less scientifically accurate. If the Moon had broken up lie was shown in the book, it would have exceeded Roche's limit and most probably hit the Earth with catastrophic effects. The Morloks were shown to be mindless beasts ruled by a man who wouldn't have been out of place in a Die Hard movie. Jeremy Irons should have been ashamed to appear in this film. Just how was the Uber Morlock supposed to have come into being? I won't even dwell upon the overt racism in this film but just suppose they had done it the other way? Put all that together with Pearce's totally characterless performance and this film is nothing more than a sombre mess. The only saving grace was Samantha Mumba who at least tried to inject some humanity into her role.

headly66 What starts out as a period piece (although set in NYC instead of the traditional England) and the set up for what we know is coming since this story is very famous and been done several times in film, quickly turns into over an hour of wasted time and hilariously bad acting in the Morlock/Eloi time frame.What could have been was not, a weak effort.Tons of bad science and plot holes:The hologram librarian is for some reason sarcastic and testy with people, I'm not sure who would build such a thing to serve people in a library. He actually rolls his eyes at one point.The Eloi can speak English even though that is a dead language 800k years old and Mara amazingly learned it from letters on stones but has a perfect modern American accent. She says they all learn it when they are young and then forget it? Everyone? Why would such a small group of people have two languages? And why didn't they learn it from the Vox?If the kid knows where the Vox is why haven't they used it since they speak English to learn the entire history of the world and how to make guns and airplanes and every other invention ever made?The hologram librarian also has emotions which makes zero sense. He is depressed and angry, why would we invent a computer who has emotions? I'm also not sure how it is still powered after 800k years, if it were self powered then that would sure solve the worlds energy issues.The Morlock are wild violent creatures up top but are industrious workers down below. And I'm not sure how the Über-Morlock knows what happened to the Moon 800k years ago since all history was wiped out.And how did Alexander know that blocking the wheels of the time machine would turn it into a bomb capable of vaporizing all the Morlocks?