Awesome!

Rating: Null/10 (31 March 2004)

Well I saw this movie with the preconception that it was going to be rather ordinary and very cliched. But when I walked in and was confronted with a plethora of evocative scenes, some original and excellent directing and just a generally lovable feel to the movie, I was blown away.
Now it's true I have a very strange test in movies. In fact, my favourite movies are Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club and (now) The Butterfly Effect among many, but if you liked the movies I just mentioned than you'll like Butterfly Effect. It has a genuine indy feel to it and it just felt so...unique! I'd like to address the very unwarranted opinion that The Butterfly Effect is a "cheap rip-off" of Donnie Darko. In my opinion this criticism misses the whole point of the film. The film is hardly intended to be a technical time-travel thriller. Instead it is a psychological thriller with a tad of romance (that doesn't end "happily ever after" mind you). To liken Donnie Darko to The Butterfly Effect is to make a very superficial link. However, in summary it's a movie that I will DEFINATELY buy on DVD as I loved it and it's going to join the ranks of all the other good films I've ever watched.