Back To The Future 4 The DRAMA

Rating: 3/10 (23 August 2007)

This movie as with most movies was marketed sneakily. The trailer made you think it was Deja Vu but in reality it was TIME TRAVEL.
This movie wreaks of plot holes, but the biggest problem was the forced scriptwriting to get Denzel into action sequences that were a joke. Apart from the fact that he probably killed several people in the car chase, this was totally unnecessary. For a US Government, Black Ops kind of project, surely if the glimpses of the past 4 days camera goes out of range it would be easier to have a helicopter with a receiver mounted to it to access out of range footage.
Come on, sending a guy out in a truck with a helmet that let's you see the 4 days ago NOW, would be the dumbest car chase in Hollywood history, accept for Blues Brothers, but that's a comedy.
The scriptwriters had a 22 minute twilight zone episode to work with and were forced to flesh it out in the typical Hollywood formulaic style. BRING BACK TWILIGHT ZONE.
The whole thing with the red laser light piercing the time space continuum was in word, LAME, so was throwing a desk chair at highly intricate technology that could create a time space paradox or shut down the entire network, was very immature.
If accessing the past was the case, and the fact that they could send back a note stating the facts of the future, why didn't they just send back another note to any one of the characters, like say VAL KILMER or his boss, or the DEJA VU computer geeks. One successful attempt and they give up, only to use a Special Helmet that blocks the vision of the driver. Come on, it's almost as if George Bush was one of the script writers.
The clincher was after stating that sending a fly and a small animal back in time failed miserably, why then would they bother sending a human, also why didn't Denzel (A Brilliant Actor, just a bad Agent, where's Ari when you need him), strip down to the Full Monty for his time travel trip, even Arnie traveled back in time naked in T1 and T2.
All in all this movie was a multi million dollar Twilight Zone episode that really needed some love and attention to bring it up to speed.
Oh Jerry, Terry and Ted let some new writing blood on to the lot, who knows you might earn millions and educate your audience all at the same time.
It seems TV is starting to, or already is, out writing FILMS.