A really good idea made into a really bad film

Rating: 3/10 (20 July 2016)

First off there are no good actors in the film,Ashton Kutcher does an okay job but everyone else (especially the child actors) are just bad actors. They can't deliver serious lines and act so strangely to build mystery,that isn't built due to a poor script making it that just feel like they're being needlessly cryptic.
Another thing is this movie has so many scenes that are out of place I found myself bursting out laughing at how bad they were,something I haven't seen in quite a while. The movie acts like it earns these scenes by building rules and characters that it just hasn't built,like a really bad Donnie Darko that desperately wants to be loved.
The flashbacks he gets after waking up in every reality are pointless because they reveal nothing and you could explain what happened by dialogue between characters,which they do (poorly) ANYWAY! Along with that, there are some interesting ideas in this but they aren't explained and if they are,they're explained poorly. How and Why does time travel run in families? Why can a mystic sense he was never meant to be? Why can he time travel at all? Why does he need his journal to travel? Why does he get a nose bleed every time he travels? Why does he black out at certain points? Is it because they're life changing? Then Why did he black out in school? It probably wouldn't change much if he still grabbed that knife.Why do people like this? Wish I knew.
Two things I have to point out is that the costume design is so tacky and awful it hurts my eyes,I don't know how they could get it that wrong.It also breaks its own rules multiple times,one being where he's in prison talking about his powers,the other prisoner doesn't believe him (of course),so to prove he has powers he goes back in time and stabs his hands,then in the future he has marks on them and the prisoner trusts him.
The movie explains that when you change something it has ALWAYS been that way,it's the main rule and the first one it states VERY clearly. So what would've really happened is the prisoner would say "you've always had those scars on your hands why are you acting like they're something new?" That's assuming that NOTHING changed due to it. He probably went to the hospital which would have changed that day and he would've had a cast so he couldn't write in his diary so how can etc,etc, you get the point,it's stupid.
This could have been incredible,but it contradicts itself,the actors are bad,the realities that occur are unrealistic,everything is explained except for the things that need to be explained and any mystery it builds is not interesting or mysterious. 3/10