Time Machine, well I think there is no need to explain what the movie is about.. It is that classic struggle of a man whose mind is beyond his time and that mind sets off when his one and only love is killed, so he builds a time machine (made of wood) to save her but apparently time is seriously related to fate.. Then he says "let's test if it goes forward" and travels to our distant future and when audience learns that we are stupid enough to dig moon with explosives he knocks himself unconscious, gets into his time vehicle and sets it to full throttle.. Surely, the faaaaar future (say like, 800000 years) is in ruins.. But can there be a future for him there? OK, story is a little suspicious.. I admit that I haven't read the book but since the book is a classic, the story was taken apart and manipulated into many other forms so that now when author's grandson tries to make his grandpa's story into a motion picture he is accused of using a banal story.. Ironic.
What I really enjoyed in the beginning was the laboratory of our mad scientist.. It was filled with interesting stuff and proves that art department did a lot of work. There is a nice reference to Einstein and so on.. Then comes the scene where he travels to future and that scene was beautiful, a glory for CGI, totally professional. Just that scene worths the entire effect of the movie.. OK, enough about the spoilers..
Guy Pearce is not bad as usual.. He looks good in a suit. Samantha Mumba as well, but she looks in that torn apart dress.. Jeremy Irons is of course always great but his downfall was the little screen time given to him.. I think Orlando Jones was really interesting as the holographic interface 'Vox', making him the best in the movie. Also Mark Addy's last scene was great..
Overall, movie loses most from having a overused storyline and confusing the audience.. What were those things? How could they know what happened to Earth and speak English after 800000, or how Vox could still stand (even though his future scenes were really really nice).. Not to mention there are tons of inconsistencies with time travel (compared to what we learned from sci-fi and Harry Potter), and cast was not mindblowingly great.. But these aren't unique for this movie; there are tons of other movies who have stupid stories and impossibly good endings.. And when they are subtracted movie mixes different eras pretty nicely, and one enjoys if the movie is watched without great expectations (or 'high')
Considering that I still have some good memories about the movie (I watched it twice: 1-when it was out, 2-five minutes ago) and the great effort made by art and CGI departments the movie deserves at least 6 stars, since Guy Pearce looks slick in suit I make it 6.5/10
What I really enjoyed in the beginning was the laboratory of our mad scientist.. It was filled with interesting stuff and proves that art department did a lot of work. There is a nice reference to Einstein and so on.. Then comes the scene where he travels to future and that scene was beautiful, a glory for CGI, totally professional. Just that scene worths the entire effect of the movie.. OK, enough about the spoilers..
Guy Pearce is not bad as usual.. He looks good in a suit. Samantha Mumba as well, but she looks in that torn apart dress.. Jeremy Irons is of course always great but his downfall was the little screen time given to him.. I think Orlando Jones was really interesting as the holographic interface 'Vox', making him the best in the movie. Also Mark Addy's last scene was great..
Overall, movie loses most from having a overused storyline and confusing the audience.. What were those things? How could they know what happened to Earth and speak English after 800000, or how Vox could still stand (even though his future scenes were really really nice).. Not to mention there are tons of inconsistencies with time travel (compared to what we learned from sci-fi and Harry Potter), and cast was not mindblowingly great.. But these aren't unique for this movie; there are tons of other movies who have stupid stories and impossibly good endings.. And when they are subtracted movie mixes different eras pretty nicely, and one enjoys if the movie is watched without great expectations (or 'high')
Considering that I still have some good memories about the movie (I watched it twice: 1-when it was out, 2-five minutes ago) and the great effort made by art and CGI departments the movie deserves at least 6 stars, since Guy Pearce looks slick in suit I make it 6.5/10