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This incoherently plotted addition to the time-travel genre looks and sounds cheesy.
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This 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. Nov 5, 2008 | Full Review…
This 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.
J. R. Jones
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. Oct 18, 2008
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.
Robert Koehler
C'est la 'B'! Timeline is crudely written, haphazardly acted, and improbably fun. Dec 2, 2003 | Full Review…
C'est la 'B'! Timeline is crudely written, haphazardly acted, and improbably fun.
Ed Park
It's like Back to the Future without the laughs. Dec 1, 2003
It's like Back to the Future without the laughs.
Richard Roeper
Time travels, but it sure doesn't fly by in this debacle. Nov 26, 2003
Time travels, but it sure doesn't fly by in this debacle.
Richard Harrington
Resembles a Star Trek episode by way of Scooby-Doo. Nov 26, 2003
Resembles a Star Trek episode by way of Scooby-Doo.
Ann Hornaday
Timeline is a dreadful movie. It's a hybrid of science fiction and medieval war film that was made for $80 million, but it looks cheap and it feels small. Jul 26, 2018 | Full Review…
Timeline is a dreadful movie. It's a hybrid of science fiction and medieval war film that was made for $80 million, but it looks cheap and it feels small.
Justin Harrison
a great example of a woulda-coulda-shoulda movie Jan 12, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
a great example of a woulda-coulda-shoulda movie
Kevin Carr
Weakly entertaining Middle Ages fantasy. Dec 29, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Weakly entertaining Middle Ages fantasy.
Nell Minow
A competent cast keeps this eccentric time travel movie (based on a Michael Crichton novel) amusing if far from successful. May 10, 2009 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
A competent cast keeps this eccentric time travel movie (based on a Michael Crichton novel) amusing if far from successful.
Cole Smithey
Timeline takes the most ridiculous movie plot ever and multiplies it by ten. Nov 5, 2008 | Full Review…
Timeline takes the most ridiculous movie plot ever and multiplies it by ten.
In Michael Crichton's oeuvre, this is more The 13th Warrior than Westworld. Silly larks for young boys with liberal parents. Nov 5, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
In Michael Crichton's oeuvre, this is more The 13th Warrior than Westworld. Silly larks for young boys with liberal parents.
Daniel Etherington
I like time travel movies, but this one leaves a bit to be desired. Usually when I watch a time travel movie, I imagine how cool it would be to be in their place - to find out some lost history or to be the wise character (with all your future knowledge), but it would not have been fun to live back in 1357.
Super Reviewer
Some archaeologists realise their dream and get to travel back in time, only things don't go as well as they'd've hoped. With a loud music score and lots of running and chasing going on I had the impression that Donner barely tries to hide that one is actually watching an old silent movie serial updated with modern gee whiz technology. Soooo dumb I was almost insulted.
A pretty forgettable film that goes nowhere fast.
When a group of archaeologists are sent back to the past to locate their missing mentor they are caught up in the seige of the castle they were excavating during the hundred years war. Timeline was on the receiving end of a critical savaging upon its release but I can't for the life of me see why. It's predictable, corny and the plot is about as plausible as Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure, but it's a Hollywood family friendly adventure so of course it is. Richard Donner has proved time and again he is more than capable of producing entertaining, tongue in cheek light entertainment and Michael Crichton's story is just more of his usual brand of theme-park-meets-history that goes down so well the rest of the time. The set pieces are fun, the swashbuckling well executed and the characters are all perfectly likable (with the possible exception of the gratuitous yank sleepwalked by Paul Walker). A perfectly servicable if forgettable family adventure that's no worse than many others of its ilk; if you liked A Knight's Tale, you'll probably like this too.
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