He always seemed to have time on his hands......

Rating: 7/10 (2 August 2014)

Tim Lake lives a pleasant life in Cornwall with his family, but he is shy with girls and unlucky in love.
When he turns twenty one, his father discloses a family secret to him, telling that the men in his family have the ability to travel in time.
First a little dumbfounded, Tim finds that his father is telling the truth and when he moves to London to work as a lawyer, he falls in love with Mary and seduces her fixing his mistakes in the relationship.
During his life, Tim uses his gift to fix not only his errors, but also in the lives of his relatives and friends......
Its a really strange one this, its funny, well acted, and the relationship between Tim and his Dad is magical, truly beautiful, but it doesn't have the spirit of Curtis' other movies.
Firstly, his films like Love Actually, and Notting Hill had characters you could relate to, normal people who would probably bump into you on the way to the tube. And this is the fundamental flaw with the film, the main family are just a bunch of snobs, and bar Nighy, who is the best thing about the film, they are not a very likable bunch.
The time travel gimmick is good, very well done, but when you look into the aspects of this a little deeper, you find it to be very macabre indeed, in one scene Tim almost literally appearing to one character as the Grim Reaper, as they know why he is acting differently.
The rest if the cast are good, McAdams is great, but miscast, Hollander is so good he's hateful, and it still has that Curtis vibe to it, just not so much.
I'm sure if time travel were possible, it would be the best movie ever, because Curtis would have made it twenty years ago and had Hugh Grant as the lead.
Would make a great double bill with X-Men: Days Of Future Past.