Not impressed

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2014)

The movie is meant to impress you and show you that you already know how to live your life perfectly by living in the moment. However, it fails in the fact that it has so many inconsistencies. On some cases Tim (the main character) absolutely can't travel back in time because it might cause him to have a different baby in the future, so there is a dramatic scene of his last visit with his father and so on; and in the next scene he actually does travel back to his childhood (regardless of his future babies) because he is going to be very careful! so why can't he be "very careful" when he goes back to see his dad again? Or the thing about his dad's cancer; it's really hard for me to accept that someone won't go back in time and fix his smoking issues to avoid cancer in the future, simply because he wants to give up. So why doesn't he go back in time and hire a hit-man to shoot him at a certain age that he sees proper for him to die! Or just simply jump off a cliff! And the thing about money, Tim won't travel back in time to become rich because his grand-uncle did it and money cause everyone to hate him. But that's again stupid, you'd think of a solution to become fairly provided without doing too much work. Also it's an insult to the rich class of people, this means you are all hated by everyone around you! Yes, I know all you 7.9 raters would say "oh, you don't get it .. the movie is not about these childish details .." .. but I see these weak points in the story as lack of ability of the writer. He could come up with another idea to stop Tim from travelling back in time for money (something like it's inhumane, it's like stealing from other people and for example his dad could make him swear that he would never do that .. or something other than a weak reason). I think the main message of the story is beautiful, but it failed in giving me a consistent movie with strong details. Oh, and Rachel McAdams is gorgeous and AMAZING! as always! :)