Okay for a cheap rental

Rating: 4/10 (2 November 2016)

As I watched the Butterfly Effect, I wondered if the writers were influenced by an episode of Star Trek Voyager titled, "Year of Hell". The story premise was exactly the same; a man (Ashton Kutcher) is driven by the love of a woman to travel back in time to rectify a mistake but whatever he does results in a new future that is no less nightmarish than before. Overall, I found it to be an semi-interesting yarn but eye-rolling ridiculous as Kutcher keeps going back in time and coming up with idiotic fixes that naturally result in a worse future. His final solution to avoid ever having befriended the love of his life is predictable and flat but it had to end somehow.