Excellent - especially the Director's Cut

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2006)

The Butterfly Effect is marvelously paced. I was gripped by Evan's dilemma, and wanted him to find a solution. Each effort he made to change things made them worse in a new, surprising way. Each problem arrives faster than the previous one. I wanted to see a solution and couldn't see how there could be a believable one. On the director's cut, there is, and it teaches us something about life.
Both Aston Kutcher, who plays Evan, and Amy Smart, who plays Kaylie are thoroughly believable as they play the same character in lives that are sometimes deliriously happy and other times disastrous and full of pain.
As a child, Evan makes a promise to Kaylie, "I'll come back to you." The consequences of keeping that promise are amazing, devastating, and, ultimately, redemptive.
Sorry this is so awfully vague, but this is one of those movies where I wouldn't want to spoil a single scene for you.