Twilight Zone revisited gets emotional, disturbing

Rating: 8/10 (27 July 2004)

This movie was damn good, especially after seeing the horribly thin range of Ashton Kutcher's acting choices in the past. I'm glad that he changed my mind about his career because I was getting pretty fed-up with this possible pretty-boy/actor thing going on with him. The movie had me annoyed at first, for the constant foreshadowing and the switch of the plot that occurs every 10 minutes or so. (I hate that trait which is made so popular nowadays with Memento and films like that...I personally think that mysteries could be unravelled in a different way)
::PLOT RUINED:: So anyways, I was taken back by the trippy flashback/memory loss material and the fact that the journals jogged his memory to such an extent where they acted as a portal for the future to change. This allows the movie to grow more on you because you want everything that continues to go wrong with Kutcher's character to change for the better but unfortunately...can't reveal the end now!
I found myself crying (a 23 year-old man) at a few scenes because of how Kutcher handles his delivery. Amy Smart does a touching and brilliant job as the love-interest-since-teenagehood character, transforming herself into 3 different entities with unique personalities in the same movie. Very Twilight Zone-esque...
It deserves the 8 that I gave it because of the aforementioned actors' portrayals, the brilliant tie-ins that directors Bress & Gruber wrap into this focussed ending, and the great existence of the alternate lifestyle changes for the character of Evan Treborn. Great film and a new standard is set for Kutcher to continue...