See the Director's cut

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2007)

I won't go into plot details here coz there are already 914 comments so I dare say someone has already done that.
I must voice this though: If you are approaching this film for the first time, see the DIRECTOR's CUT. The ending is the only real difference between the two, but WHAT a DIFFERENCE! This seems to be yet another case of the creative team coming up with a fantastic ending for a good movie, only to have it snatched away by the "studio", whatever that term means. I had the added benefit of seeing the Director's Cut FIRST, and thus when I recently obtained the Infiniti release of Butterfly Effect (both versions on one disc) and watched the theatrical ending i was able to see it for the lame, "tacked on" piece of schmaltz that it was. It's like a producer was standing there with a clipboard going "a sad ending in an Ashton Kutcher movie? Are you guys nuts? Make it happy!!" So instead of the moving and incredibly effective ending the writer/director team intended, we have a "all is well" ending that leaves you thinking "man, if you are that cut up over it, why didn't you just off yourself in the beginning and save everyone the heartache?" It really is worth seeing for the ending...only two films in recent memory have left me feeling numb and this is one of them. Great movie.