Well worth seeing

Rating: Null/10 (1 May 2004)

Considering that there is an awful lot of bad films out there currently plaguerising past successful film plots; this one, although has clearly done the same, has a tendency to encourage you to forgive it's bandwagon jump. For the first hour of viewing, the story line leaves you confused and bewildred as to what the hell is going on with the main characters. And then as soon as everything starts to click into place the plot becomes slightly intriguing if not fascinating - but, be warned - not exactly original. Apart from Kutchener and Eric Stoltz's performance the rest of the acting crew appear to have skipped drama lessons. Some parts of the plot sadly let's itself down; like for example how is Kutchener managing to time travel back to a defining moment in his troubled chilhood. My own imagination was rather stretched to fill in these sort of gaps and in order to enjoy the film as much as I really wanted to - delusion aided this pleasure, if you know what I mean? On the whole though, I would say this is a good film and well worth a watch. However it indeed could have easily been directed and written much better. I regulary compared the film to a computer adventure type game - Like the 'Shadow of Memories' available on the PS2 and now the XBOX. My summary is that I would rate the film along side the '13th Floor'. I would score it 6 out of 10 and am glad that I watched it.