Plot Description Sounds Great, But The Movie is Godawful

Rating: 1/10 (8 October 2012)

One of my video books gave this 4 and a half stars out of 5, and another 3 bones out of 4. They must have watched a different version of this mess. The plot description sounded intriguing and made me want to see the film. So I wasted 2 hours and 10 minutes on this pretentious, overacted, convoluted film which ultimately went nowhere. It amazes me that so many people can watch something like this and think it is a masterpiece. I like some time travel movies, and absolutely loved "The Butterfly Effect" (director's cut). It seems all you have to do is have a big budget for effects and a couple of big stars like Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis, and if it's a complicated sci-fi story, fans of the genre will fall all over themselves to praise the result. This one was laughably bad, and the two leads had no chemistry whatsoever. I thought "Inception" was over-complicated and overrated, but compared to this it was superb. I wish I could go back in time and not have watched this, thus getting my 2+ hours back.