Fantastic use of chaos theory when applied to the multiverse.

Rating: Null/10 (25 September 2004)

What if....
You know, most movies coming out of Hollywood these days are regurgitated stories, based upon older ideas, given barely a new twist. No one seems to ask "What If..?" anymore.
Not so this.
What if...A man finds he can change the fabric of his universe within the shell of the multiverse, merely by affecting the memories of his childhood? Fantastic stuff.
Without giving ANYTHING at all away...others have already done that to death... I will say that the performances were top notch, especially the 7 year old Eric (Logan Lerman) and the 13 year old Tommy (Jesse James). The make up effects were spot on, and the direction for the most part was white knuckle stuff. Oh...and the music was BRILLIANT...the final song, by Oasis, sent shivers up my spine.
I kind of get the feeling though, that there was more to the story than actually appeared on the screen. As is true in any movie endeavour, so much ends up on the cutting room floor, that sometimes the entire picture isn't always clear. And, I also feel that the directors, Gruber and Bress, may very well have allowed the higher ups in the Hollywood Film Factory to dictate the ending. A little bit...well...of a cop out really...
Very few movies recently have made me actually WANT to write about them, let alone actually do it.
I think that Gruber and Blunt may very well have as interesting a career as M. Night Shyamalan should they keep up this standard of work.