Timeline Reviews
Top CriticThis big-budget adventure is based on a recent Michael Crichton thriller, though its premise is too stale to instill the sense of wonder critical to great sci-fi.
Yet another case of making time travel a messy ordeal rather than a load of fun, Timeline lacks the consistent tone, pace and point of view for either a science fiction thriller or medieval war adventure.
C'est la 'B'! Timeline is crudely written, haphazardly acted, and improbably fun.
It's like Back to the Future without the laughs.
Time travels, but it sure doesn't fly by in this debacle.
Resembles a Star Trek episode by way of Scooby-Doo.
Curiously lacking in energy, which may be the result of an obviously cut-rate production budget that skimps on the sci-fi sizzle.
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| Original Score: 2/5
This dunderheaded mix of sci-fi and medieval skull-bashing should have been called Monty Python and the Holey Time Machine.
| Original Score: 1/4
An accidental comedy trapped in sci-fi/action garb, like those actors swathed in their medieval tunics, stumbling and lurching along.
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| Original Score: 1/4
The direction by Richard Donner ... is usually a beat or two off, and the dialogue seems clumsily ad-libbed.
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| Original Score: 2/4
A goofy, curious entertainment -- something of a guilty pleasure, a film that invites you to jeer and laugh in equal measure.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Bad history. Bad science. Bad acting. Bad movie.
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| Original Score: 1/5
It looks like cheesy '60s television, with paper-thin characters and crummy special effects that wouldn't even have made it in the last season of Star Trek.
Suggests a particularly wretched episode of Star Trek tricked out with fancy fireworks and weighed down with a score that grinds away like a cement mixer.
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| Original Score: 1/5
This is not just a 'B-movie' -- it's a B-movie that fails to entertain on any level.
| Original Score: 0.5/4
An instant contender for cult status on the midnight-movie circuit, where lines like 'Do we look like quantum wormhole specialists?' will be given the respect they deserve.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Where are the Knights Who Say 'Ni!' when we need them?
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| Original Score: C-
Plays out like a 1950s B-movie with a fat special-effects budget.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Lacking both will and budget, the filmmakers have done the honorable thing and given us a sweetly stupid, mercifully brisk bad movie.
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| Original Score: C
This Dude, Where's My Sword-time travel mess is funnier than a good many intentional comedies.
| Original Score: D
It looks like a lame made-for-TV movie, features a no-name cast and revolves around a hackneyed idea.
| Original Score: D+
Just once I'd like to see a time-travel movie inspired by true curiosity about the past, instead of by a desire to use it as a setting for action scenes.
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| Original Score: 2/4
It's long, sloppy, and -- to both the quantum-physics ignorant and informed -- steadily implausible, never exciting in either its skill or its ludicrousness.
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| Original Score: 1/4
As fantasy-adventures go, Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy makes this one look like a Hobbit belch.
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| Original Score: C-
Gives Gigli serious competition for worst film of the year honors.
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| Original Score: 1/4
A cross between Jurassic Park and those traveling Renaissance fairs where gnawing on turkey legs and peering at the padded bosoms of college kids pretending to be wenches is supposed to make us feel medieval.
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| Original Score: 1/4
By turns risibly puerile and purely risible, the screenplay groans under the weight of its multiple platitudes.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Despite choppy, clunky moments, it leaves you with a smile.
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| Original Score: B-
There's a lot of action and nifty special effects in a climactic battle scene. But the movie pays only fleeting attention to other matters, including character development.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
An overgrown TV episode, another wearisome journey into the past where modern 20-somethings gape in wonder at knights in shining armor, who respond by trying to skewer these reality-show rejects with authentic rubber swords.
| Original Score: 2/5
Easily the best Dude, Where's My Century? flick since Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Whatever provocative notions this concept carried are smothered over by dissonance and contrivance.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Harmless fun with a game cast in the grand tradition of '50s B movies that don't seem to realize how funny their dialogue is.
