Painfully Bad

Rating: 1/10 (4 August 2004)

Today I finally found myself rummaging through the sad excuses for new releases at the video store and was referred to The Butterfly Effect by the store manager who seems to hover over pondering customers every time I visit. I'd heard nothing but great reviews about the film and tonight I watched it. I cannot believe how bad the writing was, thanks to Bress and Gruber. I couldn't help but think of the this one as a bad (as if it could get any worse) Ground Hog's Day with Bill Murray. There was nothing that compelled me to want to watch it any further except for the fact that I had spent the money on it and already wasted part of my night watching it. It took far too long to get off the ground, it was near the end of the hour and fifty-three minute movie that you actually realized it wasn't going to get any better. Without giving too much away or creating a "spoiler" I will just say that if I could go back in time, I would have never have watched the movie. The nudity was useless, the swearing was only used to cover up the lack of good dialogue and the entertainment factor was missing.