Mediocre minds may not fully appreciate this film.

Rating: 10/10 (24 August 2004)

The Butterfly Effect is written in such a way that to fully understand the ideology behind the film you must have a working concept of quantum theory. If you think that Evan is having these blackouts as a child because of anxiety, or a way to cope with the stresses of the situations, you are mistaken. In the future Evan takes control of those situations and because of that future timeline event, it changes his perception of the past so he does not remember what happened in the past because his future alterations take place. This concept very poorly implemented in the Back to the Future series, constructs the basis of the film. I thought it was a well thought out film delving into this concept, and smoothly executed with twists and turns to keep the viewer thinking during the entire film.