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The premise is intriguing, but it's placed in the service of an overwrought and tasteless thriller.
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Nothing can save this repetitive bore. Dude, where's your memory? Jan 29, 2004 | Rating: 1/4
Nothing can save this repetitive bore. Dude, where's your memory?
Peter Travers
Not one second of this bilge makes a lick of sense. Jan 29, 2004
Not one second of this bilge makes a lick of sense.
Rex Reed
Kutcher is the wrong actor to anchor a psychological freak-out. Jan 29, 2004 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
Kutcher is the wrong actor to anchor a psychological freak-out.
Owen Gleiberman
It's as if [Kutcher] decided that he would prove himself as a dramatic actor by trying out every clichéd serious role in the history of cinema. Jan 27, 2004 | Full Review…
It's as if [Kutcher] decided that he would prove himself as a dramatic actor by trying out every clichéd serious role in the history of cinema.
Michael Agger
It's one of the most unpleasant Hollywood films in some time. Jan 24, 2004 | Full Review…
It's one of the most unpleasant Hollywood films in some time.
Charles Taylor
A flawed but serviceable thriller. Jan 23, 2004
A flawed but serviceable thriller.
Michael O'Sullivan
...an above-average time travel picture that ultimately utilizes (and exploits) its out-there premise quite nicely. Aug 16, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
...an above-average time travel picture that ultimately utilizes (and exploits) its out-there premise quite nicely.
David Nusair
The movie tries to be too visceral, and it just comes out as being repugnant Jan 17, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
The movie tries to be too visceral, and it just comes out as being repugnant
Kevin Carr
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. So very bad. Dec 28, 2010 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. So very bad.
Nell Minow
It's a pretty dumb and utterly pretentious jumbled drama that is never sure what it's trying to say, or what in fact it means. Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
It's a pretty dumb and utterly pretentious jumbled drama that is never sure what it's trying to say, or what in fact it means.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Tries hard to be affecting and mind-blowing, and sometimes it comes close. Jan 31, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Tries hard to be affecting and mind-blowing, and sometimes it comes close.
Rob Gonsalves
More like "The Gag Reflex." Nov 18, 2005 | Rating: D- | Full Review…
More like "The Gag Reflex."
Christopher Smith
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Built on one laughable implausibility after another this is a dark work that begs the recycle container ... but go along with what's unbelievable for a minute and after a minute you get a serviceable visit to the twilight zone, one where Kutcher's not a bad actor. And this is a serviceable sci-fi.
A college student discovers he can go back in time and alter past events, but every change he makes brings about tragic unintended consequences in the new present. Pretty much "DONNIE DARKO for Dummies."
A boy suffering from memory lapses is diagnosed with a hereditary mental illness but later in life learns he is capable of revisiting previous moments in his life. A variant on the whole wish fulfillment concept we've all thought about where you imagine going back to a point in your own life and try to change things for the better, this hokey sci-fi involves the ever perfectly coiffed Ashton Kutcher revisiting his past with various disastrous consequences. I feared the worst as the beginning of the film was very soapy and teen-friendly, but as the tone darkens it gets progressively more interesting. Some of the character development (if you can call it that; Kutcher's personality undergoes drastic rewrites at regular intervals) can be a little difficult to swallow and it's very episodic, but if you're willing to accept some flaws in logic it's actually quite a decent little diversion. Considering it's essentially a vehicle for a teen heart throb The Butterfly Effect is surprisingly inventive and entertaining.
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