The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 167
Fresh: 55 | Rotten: 112
The premise is intriguing, but it's placed in the service of an overwrought and tasteless thriller.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 29
The premise is intriguing, but it's placed in the service of an overwrought and tasteless thriller.
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Movie Info
Final Destination 2 screenwriters Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber make their directorial debut with the sci-fi thriller The Butterfly Effect. Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher with facial hair) wants to free himself from his disturbing childhood memories. As a kid, he often blacked out for long periods of time and tried to detail his life in a journal. As a young adult, he revisits the journal entries to figure out the truth about his troubled childhood friends Kayleigh (Amy Smart), Lenny (Elden
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Cast
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Ashton Kutcher
Evan Treborn -
Amy Smart
Kayleigh Miller -
William Lee Scott
Tommy Miller -
Elden Henson
Lenny Kagan -
Melora Walters
Andrea Treborn -
Eric Stoltz
George Miller -
Logan Lerman
Evan at 7 -
Nathaniel De Veaux
Dr. Renfield -
Ethan Suplee
Thumper -
Kevin Schmidt
Lenny Kagan at 13 -
Jesse James
Tommy at 13 -
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Cameron Crigger
Tommy Miller at 8 -
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John Patrick Amedori
Evan Treborn at 13 -
Brandy Heidrick
Kristin
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All Critics (178) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (112) | DVD (27)
Nothing can save this repetitive bore. Dude, where's your memory?
Top CriticNot one second of this bilge makes a lick of sense.
Kutcher is the wrong actor to anchor a psychological freak-out.
It's one of the most unpleasant Hollywood films in some time.
A flawed but serviceable thriller.
Sloppily conceived and clunkily paced, the movie goes from improbable to preposterous within its first few minutes; over the next two hours the filmmakers never miss a chance for some gratuitous piece of sadism, sexuality or sleaze.
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. So very bad.
Tries hard to be affecting and mind-blowing, and sometimes it comes close.
More like "The Gag Reflex."
this is exactly the sort of movie I like to see.
Assez bien dans l'ensemble, mais la fascinante prémise n'est jamais vraiment exploité à sa hauteur.
Despite a fairly upbeat ending, the ugly images dominate the film with the time/reality plot a bloody nose afterthought.
Cool theories...don't necessarily guarantee good stories...[even if Ashton Kutcher] is repeatedly punk'd by the space-time continuum.
Walks a super-thin line between horrific believability and hilarious unbelievability.
One of the most thoughtful films of 2004.
Dumb fun, thy name is Ashton.
Pena que a dupla de roteiristas não pôde realizar façanha semelhante à do herói e voltar no tempo a fim de rever suas decisões: o último ato do filme merecia uma nova chance.
Una vez que creemos que el viaje es posible, podemos pasar a disfrutar por completo las secuencias.
If you want plot twists and mind-bending, just stick to 'The Usual Suspects' and 'Memento'
a true original - and while it quite possibly contains as many holes as its protagonist's memory, half the fun is finding your way through them.
Lobotomised entertainment that's dark, violent, and hilariously dumb.
An exercise in ponderous gloom and doom.
Scary and disturbing, but also somewhat simple-minded and repetitive.
The Butterfly Effect isn't Citizen Kane, but it is far and away the best teen film that I've seen since Ghostworld... Kutcher or not.
It's quite surprising, I would imagine, to find that one can go back in time, unusual enough almost to require an explanation in the film. These filmmakers see it differently.
Kutcher brings a necessary lightness to his role as the guy who seems to make things happen around him, but doesn't want to.
Audience Reviews for The Butterfly Effect
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- Evan Treborn: I've already lost you once, I'm not gonna lose you again.
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