The Butterfly Effect Reviews

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Jonathan Crocker
BBC.com
April 13, 2004
Lobotomised entertainment that's dark, violent, and hilariously dumb.
Original Score: 2/5
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Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
January 29, 2004
Nothing can save this repetitive bore. Dude, where's your memory?
Original Score: 1/4
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Rex Reed
Observer
January 29, 2004
Not one second of this bilge makes a lick of sense.
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Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
January 29, 2004
Kutcher is the wrong actor to anchor a psychological freak-out.
Full Review | Original Score: C-
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Michael Agger
Slate
January 27, 2004
It's as if [Kutcher] decided that he would prove himself as a dramatic actor by trying out every clichd serious role in the history of cinema.
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Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
January 24, 2004
Original Score: C
C.H. Newell
Father Son Holy Gore
May 5, 2019
The Butterfly Effect looks at the power of memory, the repercussions of events from our past that bleed into the present.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
August 16, 2016
...an above-average time travel picture that ultimately utilizes (and exploits) its out-there premise quite nicely.
Original Score: 3.5/4
Kevin Carr
Fat Guys at the Movies
January 17, 2016
The movie tries to be too visceral, and it just comes out as being repugnant
Original Score: 2.5/5
Jeremy Lebens
We Got This Covered
September 21, 2012
The Butterfly Effect is a promising and original sci-fi film from newcomer directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber.
Original Score: 8/10
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
December 28, 2010
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. So very bad.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
April 29, 2009
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.
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
January 31, 2008
Tries hard to be affecting and mind-blowing, and sometimes it comes close.
Original Score: 3/5

Empire Magazine
April 1, 2006
Original Score: 2/5

Film Threat
December 6, 2005
Original Score: 2.5/5
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
November 18, 2005
More like "The Gag Reflex."
Original Score: D-

Bullz-Eye.com
July 5, 2005
Original Score: 2.5/5
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
April 2, 2005
Original Score: 3/5
Douglas Pratt
Movie City News
February 15, 2005
The film is not eccentric enough to have a lasting cult appeal, but it is reasonably enjoyable as it unfolds.
Original Score: C+
Luke Y. Thompson
LYTRules.com
January 16, 2005
this is exactly the sort of movie I like to see.
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