A brilliant, engaging and well balanced film.

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2005)

The Butterfly Effect  What a brilliant film. It answered many questions that I had in my mind about the relationship between storytelling, script, the scriptwriter, direction and the director. This film tells a massively engaging story and tells it damned well. It has wonderful technical affects to suit the story without letting the affects overshadow the telling. It is filmed very well avoiding the trap of being too beautiful. It stays WELL AWAY from the trap of being what my grandmother would have called 'too arty-farty'. None of these excesses are present in this movie, it is very well balanced indeed. It has a wealth of one liners amid a very intelligent script. There is not a hint of ham acting anywhere in sight. This film went straight into my top ten films of all time and I am in my forties. The large group of teenagers I watched it with, a tough audience, also gave it the highest accolades I have heard. PS - Nicole (16) says Ashton Kutcher is 'hot'. Who am I to disagree. This film is a triumph of storytelling.