Amazing Sci-Fi Thrilla!

Rating: 10/10 (28 March 2012)

When I saw the billing for "The Butterfly Effect" the first thought that crossed my mind was "Oh great, Ashton Kutcher is doing a Sci Fi/Thriller this is going to be a joke". My first impression was totally off base. This film is, in my humble opinion, Ashton Kutcher's best performance and was complemented by a very dynamic performance by Amy Smart as Kayleigh Miller. Elden Henson had some strong moments as a disturbed Lenny Treborn and Ethan Suplee was off the wall as Thumper. But the acting was just the icing on the cake.
Eric Bress and J.Mackey Gruber have created their best work to date in this movie. It was a surprisingly good psychological, Sci Fi thriller with an added dramatic element. Their slant on the "highly treaded on" time travel theme was unique and refreshing. I liked that they used a psychological means to transport a person consciousness back in time instead of the physical means of a time machine. That allowed them to focus on an individual's history instead of a "universal" timeline, which fueled the dramatic paradoxical realities of tampering with ones history.
I am sure that everyone has thought about changing an event in their past to correct a mistake or to prevent a tragedy. This movie masterfully brings the realities of that to the screen. Throw in some psychological twists, some twisted characters, and the dramatic consequences of a love interest lost in the tampering of ones history; you have "The Butterfly Effect". I gave it 10/10 because it was a surprisingly well done film.