Guy Pearce

Samantha Mumba

Omero Mumba

Jeremy Irons

Sienna Guillory

Orlando Jones

Mark Addy

Phyllida Law

Laura Kirk

Josh Stamberg

John W. Momrow

Max Baker

Jeffrey M. Meyer

Alan Young

Myndy Crist

Connie Ray

Lennie Loftin

Dana Schick

Thomas Corey Robinson

Yancey Arias

Richard Cetrone

Edward Conna

Chris Sayour

Jeremy Fitzgerald

Dorian Kingi

Doug Jones

Joey Anaya

Chona Jason

Alex Madison

Mike Chaturantabut

Jon Valera

John Koyama

Jonathan Eusebio

Hiro Koda

Efia Pearson

John Logan

David Valdes

Donald McAlpine

Christopher Burian-Mohr

Deena Appel

Simon Wells

Oliver Scholl

Bruce Robert Hill

Walter F. Parkes

Victor J. Zolfo

Mindy Marin

H.G. Wells

Donald B. Woodruff

Wayne Wahrman

Klaus Badelt

Bob Ringwood

John M. Elliott Jr.

Cha Blevins

Rachel Wyn Dunn

Steve Kelso

David Duncan

Robert E. 'Bobby' Powell

Lou Pecora

Jeff Imada

Hiro Narita

Stephen Elsbree

Richard Snell

Joseph Grimaldi

Angela Stauffer

Scott Maginnis

Raman Rao

John S. Beyers

John Lowry

Sharon 'Mae' West

Jeff Butcher

Robin Alan Knight

Scott H. Eddo

Gary A. Krakoff

Barbara Lorenz

David E. Diano

Steven R. Mathis

William Decker

Edmondo Sepulveda

Donald E. Thorin Jr.

Glenn Forbes

Trudy Ramirez

John Castro

Andrew Cooper

Chuck Brown

Bryce Shields

Vern Nobles

Kevin Tiesiera

Gary Burritt

Kelly G. Crawford

Timothy Eaton

John T. Cucci

Eric Lindemann

Mark Della Rosa

Debra Wolff

Erik Nash

Scott Squires

Jonathan Egstad

Tom Bertino

Mike Makara

Fumi Mashimo

Thomas J. Smith

Michael J. Broomberg

Dan O'Connell

Doug Masters

Kevin Clark

John Roesch

Harrison D. Marsh

Charles Ewing Smith

Mike Chock

Sharon Smith Holley

Julian Levi

Matt Sweeney

Gregg Landaker

David Prescott

Steve Maslow

Marci R. Johnson

David A. Whittaker

Alyson Dee Moore

Steve Tushar

Mark Mangini

Kevin Elam

James E. Price

Randy Bricker

Scott Wirtz

Reuben Simon

Marcy Craig

Perry Dodgson

Elliott Koretz

Michael Kory

Serge Sretschinsky

Bridgitte Ferry

Ed Callahan

Michael Alkan

Jennifer Bell

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Adventure

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The Time Machine

DreamWorks Pictures

Warner Bros. Pictures

Parkes/MacDonald Productions

United States of America

English

future

new york city

based on novel or book

time travel

time machine

remake

steampunk

near future

Some interesting and even ambitious aspects but this sci-fi thriller was pretty uneven while the visual effects were also a mixed bag from being fairly impressive for its time (20 years now) to pretty shoddy. On the plus side, Guy Pearce was good in the lead. This one also reminded me when Orlando Jones was in a good amount of movies (18 between 1998-2004). IDK, this is one that did keep me entertained. **3.0/5**

I don't know how to approach this one.

"The Time Machine" is one of those stories that, rereading it, beings back vivid memories. One of my best friends in high school loaned it to me, I stored it away in my backpack for about a month and then...when we had a field trip to The Board of Trade, I scrounged it out and read it on the train ride.

It was one of those stories that is so short I could rip through it in the hour and fifteen minutes between our small town and Chicago. To this day, every time I go back to it, it brings me back to 1997 and, to this day, I distinctly remember finishing it about the time the train stopped and I remember walking into the crowded city feeling like I was in a different world. The story had moved me out of reality so much Chicago seemed jarring.

And then they made it into a movie, a remake of a movie and, watching it, I don't know, I didn't have that same sense of being in a totally different world that the book gave me...

And the movie, in my mind, has to live up to that experience in some small way. Or at least give you that feeling that same feeling that the world was still spinning that one gets when they walk out of a movie and discover that it had rained.

It's an engrossing story and The Time Machine didn't seem to whisk me away like the book did. I can't help but feel it deserved better.

It felt like I was watching a movie and, honestly, it gave me the same since that Jackson's King Kong did, it felt like it was trying and horribly, miserably failed.

I left feeling "meh," and that was after being excited walking into it, I mean, I read it in 1997 and they made a movie in 2002 and, I was expecting the same feeling. I had waited long enough.

So, I don't know, I may be overly harsh on it just because I loved what the story did to me so much, the first time I read it and now, as an adult, it doesn't take me to another world, it takes me back to 1997 again, and high school, and that hour fifteen minute train ride to Chicago.

So ultimately, it could be a halfway decent film that I just hate because the story had such a jarring effect on me when I first encountered it.

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Written by JPV852 on Sat Jun 04 2022

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