>"You were right, Philby. We did go too far." Hmm, this might be my least favorite time travel movie of all time. The beginning is pretty interesting and I was hoping we would focus on that but then it feels like it just falls apart.

This movie is...odd. The story in itself has a good basis, a men suffers the death of her beloved then builds a time machine to try and fix it the problem is that the film has an odd way of telling the story and the pacing felt strange. This movie is 1 hour and a half, which was normal for the 00's but these days movies usually are 2 hours long, i feel like this movie would have greatly benefitted having 30 more minutes to it the first part of the movie feels really rushed, the death of the girl, the construction of the time machine and the realization that "i cannot change the past" all happen in like 5 minutes of the movie. One scene the machine is just a couple of numbers on a whiteboard, one minute later it's done and working he literally tries to save the girl a single time in the movie and he is instantly convinced that he can't change the past, i feel like i would have tried just a bunch more After that he goes to the future, the sequence at the library with the AI felt really clunky and just far from reality, but this was the 00's concept of the future i guess so i can't really complain about it the fact that 800 thousand years in the future the only thing that really changed is where the soil is just funny, yes they tell us that humanity has evolved in 2 branches, one of slaves and ones of weird cannibal monsters, but that seems just silly. 800k years of evolution would probably do a bit more than that i would also expect plants to be different, and animals too, only chameleons and bats are shown but still it feels odd. At the end of the movie the protagonist is told 2 really important informations: 1) you can't change the past. if you were to change an event that means that you would not create time travel to change that event, which means that you would not travel back to change it, which means it would change. And if it didn't change, you would create time travel and so on and so forth. So changing the past is impossible because it would put you in an endless loop, cool 2) alexander travels to the future (like 635 MILLION YEARS MORE into the future holy crap) and notices that the cannibal monsters have transformed the earth in a wasteland. given these informations, he goes back to the 800k something (so in the "future present") and destroys his machine to also destroy the monsters and save the "human slaves" which really does nothing, since as we know changing the past doesn't change the future so the monsters will still end up ruling over the earth somehow but i guess it does help his tribe to live a happier life, since they won't need to worry about the monsters anymore. So when the movie ends, he stays in the future with this new girl he met (which felt just really wrong, since this whole journey started because he wanted to save "the love of his life" at any cost) and that's it It's not that bad of a movie honestly, I somewhat enjoyed it, it just felt quite rushed in many parts and the story doesn't really make sense to me in many ways (why stay in a primitive future? why even bother to change something that it's going to happen 635 million years in the future? why literally nothing evolved except a branch of humans? i could go on but you get the point)

I forgot how bad this movie is. The previous version of the movie from 1960 is definitely better. I have always loved how [spoiler]he tries to save his girlfriend once and then says he could try a thousand time and watch her die a thousand ways.[/spoiler] That seems like some poor extrapolation there. We could have at least had a montage of a few dozen attempts before we leap to the conclusion that it isn't going to happen. I do love the way the Morlocks pacify the Eloi. Take the ones that fight and the rest learn not to resist. Really quite brilliant. I can't remember if that is in the book or not, but I like it.

It's a bit goofy at this point. The machine is goofy, the midpoint visit is goofy, and the morlocks are very goofy. The OG White Walker is only a little goofy. It's not a bad movie though. The time travel concepts feel a bit dated.

A solid variation based on the classic H.G. Wells novel. The reason why I do not give it 7 stars is that it really only loosely based on the novel and takes the story into an a bit different direction. It is solid, well made and OK in general, but the subtle intelligence of the original story is mostly replaced by superficial Hollywood story elements. As said, OK, but you should also watch the 1960 movie, which is generally way better.