Don't believe all you read in the reviews....

Rating: Null/10 (29 August 2004)

WARNING...POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD
A previous reviewer felt Ashton Kutcher was not ready for drama. I disagree. He's no Gregory Peck, but I thought he did a great job playing a 20-something college student, and playing him straight. His reactions in all the situations he was in were believable.
As for the movie, maybe one needs to have an open mind for alternate realities; the road not taken. How many times in somebody's life could they make a decision that takes them down a totally different path? Nobody can predict the events that would occur from those decisions, either. Ashton Kutcher's character Evan is somehow able to project his adult mind into himself at various points in his life in vain attempts to make things better in his present day. Every time he "fixes" something, another facet of his life is broken.
Countless time travel novels have been written about people who attempt to change the past, only to have the future become unrecognizable. This movie is original in that it poses time travel without the benefit of a machine. Evan's only mechanism is to read journal entries at critical points in his life.
In my opinion, it is a highly watchable movie.