CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

A_Different_Drummer One of my all time favorite movies, not merely in the "time travel" class but in any class. Before doing this review I checked a site that promised to name the 100 best time travel movies of all time and this wonderful film was not even listed! So I am writing this review to both right a terrible wrong and at the same time maybe, just maybe, convince one potential viewer in the future to check this out. (My other reviews detail my view that, by the 22nd century, for the price of a sandwich, you will be able to buy/rent the entire IMDb and have it beamed directly into your cortex). Where shall I start? The direction is by David Twohy, the man who turned Vin Diesel into a superstar and is behind the Riddick franchise. So you are not going to have to put up with any second rate film making. Jeff Daniels is the emotional center, the glue, of the story, and this was before his breakout role in Newsroom when he showed the world that, if he had to, he could carry an entire weekly series on his back. He plays a widower trying to get over the recent loss of his wife and, even though I checked the spoiler box, that is as much as I want to share with you for now. Finally the setup. Nothing short of brilliant. Daniels' character is running a middling B&B in the middle of nowhere (to cope with the aforesaid loss) and a very very very (3 "very"s, done deliberately) strange group of guests shows up. And that's when the fun starts. I love the film and it also has one of my favorite endings of all time. Which BTW is no easy feat. I could easily do an entire site of 100 time travel films with great beginnings, great middles, and really rotten endings. (See also my review of Timeshifters in case you too have a Time Travel "jones" and you are looking for leads.) Final comment: find it, rent it, buy it, own it. See it.

gravity3 Now let me justify that bold summary. Sure, PITCH BLACK and CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK have a zillion bucks of special effects up there on the screen. And I did actually enjoy PITCH BLACK for what it was. But it was pretty hard for me to get involved with the characters and care much about what happened to them between all the explosions and monsters and whatever. Let's face it, balancing truck loads of creatures, spaceships and other eye candy with a script (yes, these things do have a script) - and I mean the story in that script - is a tough job. Even Spielberg lost control of his story in a couple of films.I'm really not putting down what director David Twohy has done since. I just think, in many cases, that a film can benefit from having technical limitations. It forces the director - and everyone else in the cast and crew - to focus on what really makes a great film: the story. THE GRAND TOUR has that big time. It has characters that you can care about, because they're written well in the story. Ariana Richards is just right in this pre-JURASSIC PARK role, for example. Plus we get nice performances from character actors like George Murdock. There are some fairly decent twists to the story, because, well, there is a story. Which means the actors get some decent lines and don't spend the time screaming or saying things like "gotta kill a few people", or something just as insightful. The effects shots are kept to a minimum, most likely due to budget. So they matter less here, and we get nearly all of the camera time on the characters. And that makes the film work.So what's my point? First, if you like sci-fi, especially low-key character driven sci-fi drama, then GRAND TOUR is a film worth seeing. Second, I think David Twohy the director is better when he lets David Twohy the writer really go to town. The only thing I like better of his, would be THE FUGITIVE (he wrote it but did not direct). Now GRAND TOUR is not perfect, and it's no FUGITIVE, but it's pretty entertaining and for Twohy in the director's chair, it's my favorite. I do understand the need to "give 'em what they want" with the CGI and all, but one can balance story and visuals. I hope to see a Twohy film written this well get a real budget. Who knows, maybe folks would even go see it.

phillyjc I will keep this short. Grand Tour is a very enjoyable science fiction film. It relies on thinking as opposed to special effects. It is a good story with vivid characters. This film is a great, solid sci-fi story and is worth the watch.

Abhishek (moviebuff81) Timescape (as it was called here in the UK) was one of the late night films here on BBC T.V. It was well worth staying up to watch this one. This is one of those films that just gets better as it goes along. If you are a big science fiction fan, especially for those interested in time travel. Timescape talks about how anyone travelling from the future cannot come back and change the past, as this would change the future itself. The movie is a little slow in the beginning, and could have been much better technically. But it is not bad for a television series (though it was shown as a film here!). It answers many questions and also questions many of the theories that currently exist in the scientific world. If you liked the 'twelve monkeys' or '12:01' you MUST watch this! (and vice-versa)