A UNIQUE EFFECT!

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2004)

Walking into this film I'm sure expectations from anyone couldn't be very high. Especially since it's from the team that penned and brought together the Final Destination sequel and stars Ashton Kutcher in his first big dramatic role with a supporting performance from funny girl Amy Smart and unknown actor Ethan Suplee whom is just all over the advertising for this thing. But throwing all those mis conceptions to the side. I must say that this film is pretty damn good. Hell even great and has a very unique effect on it's surprised audience. First I would like to give kudos to all involved the film is pretty ballsy, it's also extremely well done, has unpredicatble twists and is quite creative. The only thing that falls semi flat is the acting, although it's not bad it's also not very good. And a story of this magnitude and importance could have used some better supprt. That said let's talk about what this film is about. Sexy Ashton Kutcher stars as a young man whom has a strange illness that prones him to blackouts. As he grows older after an insufferable childhood he learns that he has the ability to go back and fix whats wrong with the past. But he can't do it without effecting the future. Every time he goes back he alters something else sometimes for the better but ultimately for the worse. His struggles invovlve a first love, a sadistic brother, murder, pedophilia, child pornography, drugs, prostitution and etc. And that's putting it lightly the film comes together at an unexpected but necessary conclusion and manages to be truly one of the most depressing films ever made. So I urge all moviegoer's out there that wanna experience something different to run out and see The Butterfly Effect. It's more of an experience than a film and one thats not soon to be forgotten.