Not really an original, is it?

Rating: 2/10 (27 February 2012)

This movie borrows heavily from a myriad of other films... a boy can predict cataclysmic events... life progression changes depending whether a hero makes a train or not (remember "Sliding Doors"?)... "Life is a box of chocolates" type of philosophy... risqué teenage sex under parents' noses ("The Dreamers" Bertolucci)... CGI effects depicting future architecture and transportation... travel on Mars ("save 16,000 units!" - isn't this taken directly from my favorite "Total Recall"?)... etc. It is fine to borrow and bring it all together creating something new out of it. But this is where this movie fails.
Apart from a couple of interesting one-liners this long movie does not give us anything but annoyance. Especially irritating are the long and repetitive love story and people walking backwards to depict the reversal of time (apparently, the director thinks his audience are idiots).
This movie is one of those with a pretense of being artsy and significant, and many people take the bait, as they always do.
I hope this review will enable *YOU* not to.