Ashton Kutcher should stick to his stupid MTV gags

Rating: 3/10 (19 March 2005)

The Butterfly Effect was one of the greatest disappointments of film year 2004. The story is poorly developed and full of functional anomalies that make it pretty much unwatchable if you are like me and demand some reasonable explanations for the unreasonable leaps a story might ask you to swallow. Being a time travel film, I expected the Butterfly Effect to be an exercise is suspending my disbelief, but I was unable to enjoy this movie due to the pure bad acting and absurd plotting, the badly developed supernatural elements not withstanding. The dialog was little more than monotonic mumbling. The casting was awful, especially with regards to the main character (played most unconvincingly by Ashton Kutcher.) I understand that some people really liked this film and I can almost see why, but I would be dishonest if I didn't state openly that I felt like I was watching an over-budgeted student film made by the spoiled and over-privileged children of industry bigwigs.