Time travel is always difficult

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2014)

Time travel is a very difficult subject to project to the viewer. The writer(s) need to be careful because once you throw time travel in to the story you could open a Pandora's box of problems.
This movie, based on a book, fails miserably. The time travel in this movie is so messed up it creates more questions and continuity errors than it can resolve. And while people will dislike what I say next, in real life, time travel does not work this way. Check the science for the theory of time travel.
I thought the special effects were good and I thought that the overall flow of the movie was good, but the time travel thing didn't work for me. I liked the fight scenes, the humor, the CGI, but the time travel thing didn't work for me.
When the main plot of the movie has continuity errors, and this one has it is spades, I no longer like the movie. I dislike it because the illusion has been broken and I realize that I'm back in my seat watching a movie.
There are individual scenes which are good, but the overall movie stunk. I want to be submerged in to a juicy plot which will make me forget reality for 90 minutes. This movie reminds me that I'm sitting in a seat, watching a movie.
And in closing, I don't care too much for Tom Cruise any more. He seems one dimensional to me. I think in his elderly years, he's become ridged with his acting style. The characters in his movie all seem the same, the way they project emotional responses.