Easily the best Time Travel movie.

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2016)

!!!!!!1.21 JIGA-WATTS!!!!!!
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 MPH...you're gonna see some serious sh**."
"Calm down Marty I didn't disintegrate anything, the molecular structure of Einstein and the car are completely intact - Yeah, well where the hell are they - The appropriate question is WHEN the hell are they".
Back To The Future is one of the most original films ever made and also as one of the most entertaining and this masterpiece of Sci-Fi has long stood as a collective triumph for the careers of Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Robert Zemeckus. Released in mid-1985, met with rousing popular and critical acclaim, which proved to be a goldmine for Universal Studio, who made two more (less good) sequels some years later. In this movie you'll see a combination of some of the best and most lively acting ever captured on film by a perfectly chosen cast, many of which play dual-roles to great effect. Plus, for this sci-fi classic, a profoundly brilliant and singularly witty screenplay masterfully guides the flow of things to come (and that which what has already happened - in the past), which is a confoundingly complex and interwoven series of twists and turns, so many, in fact, that only a mere handful of movie's have more. Largely due to it's brilliant writing (and great line readings) Back To The Future is easily one of the most quotable films ever made (perhaps only GHOSTBUSTERS packs more quotes) and that particularly holds true for Doc Brown, who not only has most of the movies best lines, but also puts the most enthusiasm into said lines. At the heart of the film is a unique, one-of-a-kind vehicle (a HEAVILY MODIFIED DeLorian) of Doc Brown's creation, (without it there would be no Back To The Future) that enables it's operator to travel any where in time AND in highly dramatic fashion an unlucky Marty McFly does just that - and not exactly by design. I find that the car makes some of the sweetest sounding vehicular sounds ever and I always wondered if were hearing the live sound or was it over-dubbed in post production. Either which way, a plethora of amazing engine sounds (do I detect a turbine whine?) emanate from under the "trunk" as DeLorian's are indeed a rear engine design; especially after Doc Brown's handy-work!
For a Sci-Fi film, the special effects in Back To The Future are unusually sparse in their application (though brilliantly effective when they are used), you might even say that their under-used, but if at any time you sit back and analyze what you're seeing, eventually you'll realize it's really more of a "human drama" than a Sci-Fi film. Musically speaking, along with Huie Luis and the News, Back To The Future is powerfully enhanced by an amazingly effective and mostly up-beat score by a young Alan Silvestre; just listen to how grandly effective his music is during the finale when combined with, A: the variety of sounds from the car and B: the crushing and unrelenting thunder from the storm that rages over Hill Valley (another early triumph, from yet another artist who had a leading hand in the making of this iconic and universally popular film). Speaking of THAT finale, Back To The Future's rip-roaring, high-voltage, thunder n' lightning finale, is easily one of the -most exciting- sequences ever devised (year after year it's the ONLY part of ANY movie that routinely makes the hair on my arms stand up - every time I see it). Unfortunately the two sequels that followed in 89' and 90' are not as good as this, but are pretty good for sequels.
Brilliant in every conceivable way, this time-travel-blockbuster-spectaculaire remains one of cinema's brightest triumphs of creative film-making.