Fantastic Movie! It's about.. time

Rating: 10/10 (19 February 2004)

I went to see this movie largely because other people dragged me to it, and I did so with little expectations of a movie worth my time. But I can honestly say that it's been quite a while since I've seen a good mind f*ck movie like this.
Butterfly Effect is the first movie I've ever seen whose writers (Gruber & Bress) had big enough cajones to actually try and employ a plot concept as difficult as time travel while still giving a convincing story. (For those of you goobers bitching about "plot holes" because of him altering his past.. that's the very argument Einstein gave for why time *backward* time-travel is impossible in the first place.. it's a MOVIE, get over it)
Kutcher & Smart show *phenomenal* acting ability as each of their characters becomes warped into the new people they've become. I think Kutcher's character was the most engaging though; I actually started feeling the same frustration and desperation his character was feeling!
I don't wish to spoil it, but this movie easily ranks next to Memento for sheer suspense and disorientation.. I'm sorely disappointed in IMDB users for not giving this movie more credit.. and votes.
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