A big butterfly shows up...

Rating: 6/10 (23 September 2018)

Characters are not well built-up, so you can hardly go inside of them to feel the story. The movie is overly plot-driven so that I found myself thinking of the plot throught the entire film. It is not sure if it is a sci-fi or psychological movie. It tries to be both, but misses both of them. It tries to be psychological as Evan tries to remember his traumatic memories, and it tries to be sci-fi as he can change his life as he goes back in time. Trying to hook sci-fi and psychology at the same item (memory of Evan) of the story makes the movie ambigious, and plot is already complex. Trying to follow both pathways in that complexity makes the audience fall out from the movie. I spent the entire movie trying to figure out what the movie is about, could not enjoy watching it. If the movie worked on the characters I would at least feel identification with them, then the other things about the movie would be a lot easier and enjoyable.
This is a film that tries to be a movie. Such as a butterfly that tries to get its both wings and loses them all and fails to be a butterfly, this film tries to be both sci-fi and psychological, at the end, it ends up having neither of the components, and fails to be a movie.
The most enjoyable thing was a big butterfly showing up while I was watching!