Write it - Change it - or Leave it? **SPOILERS**

Rating: Null/10 (23 January 2004)

Man - just got back from this one, and I gotta write this down so I can use my journals....Whoops, still pulling back to the reality zone, sorry!
The movie is pretty slow in the beginning. We get to see Ashton (Evan) go through age seven up to about age 22. As a kid, he has several "blackouts" where he can't remember what happens during a 1-2 minute period. His mother takes him to a neurologist, who suggests that he keep journals so he might remember what happened during these blackouts someday.
Evan has several disturbing things happen during his childhood, and Kayleigh, the love of his life, has some bumps too.
Don't worry, it ramps up.
When he gets to college, one of Evan's girlfriends asks him to read out of one of his journals. He picks a segment that describes a moment before one of his blackouts. All of a sudden, the present world fades away and Evan is back in that pocket of time. He doesn't know how he got there, and before too long, he's back in the present.
Evan thinks he's finally going to discover what's behind these repressed memories. Evan reads another passage, and while he relives one of those memories, he drops a cigarette on himself and it burns through his shirt. When Evan comes back to present day, he now has a burn mark where one didn't exist before.
From this, Evan figures out that each of his childhood "blackouts" was actually the creation of a waypoint, and he has the ability to rewrite events during his blackouts, to produce a new outcome.

Evan decides to go back and enter another one of those memories - he picks the one where he was about to be forced to perform in a homemade porno film for Kayleigh's dad. When he gets there, Evan threatens to report Kayleigh's father to child services, and this time she told her dad off.
After this, Evan wakes up in the present, in a different room. All of a sudden, he starts to get a splitting headache and we see his old memories start to fade, while 15 years of new ones come crashing into his mind. He is now with Kayleigh, and things have changed. But not all for the better...
This is about all I can say about the movie without giving absolutely everything away. Seeing Ashton Kutcher doing a serious role was very impressive, given his performance in "Dude, Where's My Car" and "That 70's Show". However, high praise must be given to John Amedori and Logan Lerman; the two child actors who produced the changes in Evan's past, for better and for worse.
The ending was not what I expected at all, but it was a welcome one.
Definitely worthy of the movie ticket price. Go see it.