It's about one of the most Human's ancestral fantasies: To change the past!

Rating: 6/10 (5 February 2007)

How many times do we want to change something we didn't right in the past? How many times do we have this feeling which tells us that one little detail could have changed everything? And how many times do we want to have the chance to come back into the past and do it right? That's the main topic of this movie
It all begun when a terrible terrorist attack happens in New Orleans, a ship full of people explodes in the river. More than 500 persons were killed and there were no survivors. An agent of ATF, Doug Carlin (Danzel Washington), is called to investigate the case, and soon he starts finding some important clues. Then the FBI appeared and Doug Carlin is integrated in FBI's investigation, which is using an experimental (and revolutionary)technology that permits one to see what happened in the past, through a complex flux of energy
When this movies starts it seems that there is something really original/new (the experimental project, at the beginning, is really nice! It's very well done and, by some way, it shows "some credibility") but when the plot is growing the originality starts to disappear, and all that we see is some clichés that we all have seen before, in other Sci-Fi movies. I think the movie starts to lose its originality and interest when the main character wants to get back in the past and change it we have seen it before in the movies, haven't we?!
And that ending This "nice looking ending" fits so badly in the story! Wouldn't it be so much better if the "time" and the "happenings" could be faithful to themselves? I mean, the things just happen again the way they had happened before In my point of view it would have much more logic and would be a "lesser romantic" ending than it was! Though it was an entertaining movie, a typical Hollywood one!