The Butterfly Effect Reviews
January 17, 2016
The movie tries to be too visceral, and it just comes out as being repugnant
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
December 28, 2010
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. So very bad.
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| Original Score: 1/5
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.
April 1, 2006
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| Original Score: 2/5
December 6, 2005
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
November 18, 2005
More like "The Gag Reflex."
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| Original Score: D-
July 5, 2005
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
October 14, 2004
Despite a fairly upbeat ending, the ugly images dominate the film with the time/reality plot a bloody nose afterthought.
Original Score: C-
September 24, 2004
Cool theories...don't necessarily guarantee good stories...[even if Ashton Kutcher] is repeatedly punk'd by the space-time continuum.
August 10, 2004
Walks a super-thin line between horrific believability and hilarious unbelievability.
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| Original Score: 6/10
May 10, 2004
If you want plot twists and mind-bending, just stick to 'The Usual Suspects' and 'Memento'
April 13, 2004
Lobotomised entertainment that's dark, violent, and hilariously dumb.
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| Original Score: 2/5
April 9, 2004
An exercise in ponderous gloom and doom.
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| Original Score: 1/5
March 16, 2004
Scary and disturbing, but also somewhat simple-minded and repetitive.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
March 16, 2004
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| Original Score: 2/5
February 25, 2004
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.
February 14, 2004
Dude, where's my memory?
Original Score: .5/4
February 7, 2004
A ludicrous supernatural thriller, packed with clichs, heavy-handed symbolism, stupid dialogue and over-acting.
Original Score: 52/100
February 4, 2004
somewhere in Asia a few years back, a fruit fly passed gas and unwittingly began an inexorable string of circumstances that has now resulted in Ashton Kutcher becoming a star.
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| Original Score: 2/4
February 3, 2004
When it's all said and done, there comes a not half-bad twist. But by this time, we've endured too many reprises of canine flamb, plus Eric Stoltz as a drooling pervert.
Original Score: .5/4