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

John Logan

Mindy Marin

Klaus Badelt

Wayne Wahrman

Deena Appel

H.G. Wells

David Valdes

Oliver Scholl

Simon Wells

Bruce Robert Hill

Christopher Burian-Mohr

Walter F. Parkes

Donald McAlpine

Donald B. Woodruff

Bob Ringwood

Victor J. Zolfo

Cha Blevins

John M. Elliott Jr.

Rachel Wyn Dunn

Steve Kelso

David Duncan

Robert E. 'Bobby' Powell

Lou Pecora

Jeff Imada

Scott H. Eddo

John Lowry

Chuck Brown

Richard Snell

Joseph Grimaldi

Trudy Ramirez

David E. Diano

Raman Rao

Hiro Narita

Glenn Forbes

Kevin Tiesiera

Scott Maginnis

Edmondo Sepulveda

Donald E. Thorin Jr.

Andrew Cooper

Jeff Butcher

Steven R. Mathis

Robin Alan Knight

Stephen Elsbree

John Castro

Angela Stauffer

Gary A. Krakoff

Vern Nobles

John S. Beyers

Barbara Lorenz

Sharon 'Mae' West

William Decker

Bryce Shields

Serge Sretschinsky

Thomas J. Smith

Michael J. Broomberg

Dan O'Connell

Steve Tushar

Kevin Elam

Matt Sweeney

Marci R. Johnson

Charles Ewing Smith

David A. Whittaker

Gregg Landaker

Mark Mangini

Mark Della Rosa

Timothy Eaton

John T. Cucci

Kevin Clark

Gary Burritt

Steve Maslow

Eric Lindemann

James E. Price

Bridgitte Ferry

Alyson Dee Moore

Michael Kory

Randy Bricker

Perry Dodgson

Elliott Koretz

Tom Bertino

Jonathan Egstad

Kelly G. Crawford

Scott Wirtz

Reuben Simon

Marcy Craig

Mike Chock

Sharon Smith Holley

Debra Wolff

Julian Levi

John Roesch

Fumi Mashimo

Erik Nash

Harrison D. Marsh

Mike Makara

David Prescott

Michael Alkan

Doug Masters

Scott Squires

Ed Callahan

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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