If it's remembered at all, it will be as a time capsule of early-21st-century blockbuster cowardice and redundancy.
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03/12/02
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The Time Machine (2002)
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Reviews Counted:146
Fresh:41
Rotten:105
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: This Machine has all the razzle-dazzles of modern special effects, but the movie takes a turn for the worst when it switches from a story about lost love to a confusing action-thriller.
Theatrical Release:Mar 8, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $56,684,819
Synopsis: Scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to... [More]
Starring: Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba
Director: Simon Wells
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Top CriticStripped of all the ingenuity and observations that made the original story worthwhile.
03/11/02
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03/11/02
New Yorkers always seem to find the oddest places to dwell...
03/11/02
This new Time Machine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable. Even at its worst, it's not half-bad.
03/11/02
...wears its admiration to the George Pal film prominently on its sleeve.
03/11/02
A zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects, hoary dialogue, fluxing accents, and -- worst of all -- silly-looking Morlocks.
03/10/02
It is an imaginative adventure yarn with good cinematography, great production design and excellent art direction ... Guy Pearce is effective as the leading man.
03/09/02
That Jeremy Irons’ character should set one to thinking of “Battlefield Earth’s” Travolta is not a good thing.
03/09/02
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03/09/02
They gave The Time Machine a major overhaul and ended up with a clunker.
03/09/02
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03/09/02
The new film version of The Time Machine is misconceived from jump.
03/09/02
If you want a movie time trip, the 1960 version is a far smoother ride.
03/09/02
Little of the novel's social commentary permeates the film's 96 minutes, which proves to be nothing more than a mindless array of cheesy special effects, enough to triple coat an extra large pizza.
03/09/02
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03/09/02
In the new film, it's personal tragedy that provokes the journey, not social upheaval or even scientific curiosity -- which, predictably, makes for a story that's at once more familiar and less interesting.
03/09/02
It’s rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from “promising” to “interesting” to “familiar” before landing squarely on “stupid”.
03/08/02
Isn't a complete home run, but...is that rare special effects-laden feature that actually uses its brain and has something worthwhile to say.
03/08/02
How come getting the CGI right is so damned important, but the filmmakers go Ed Wood when it comes to the continuity of the sun in the sky?
03/08/02
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