good plot/storyline, but not worth the rental fee 'cause it's too graphic with the language and violence

Rating: Null/10 (7 January 2005)

i found the butterfly effect's storyline gripping and interesting but if i hadn't been at a friend's place at the time i wouldn't have watched more than five minutes because all the violence/language/sexual content just put me right off. i only stayed int eh room 'cause i didn't want to look stupid. pretty dumb of me, cause the bad outweighs the good by far here.
movies like this could be sodramatically improved if they found other words to replace f*&&&**, removed the sex scenes (they aren't relevant, ever and didn't get so in depth with the violence. there are better, more imaginative ways to get a point across. even so, i have to admit that the plot was very intelligent, really reels you in. when you think time travel films you expect some fantasy, star trek but this film is nothing like that. it's basically about someone with an awful life who tries to change his past when he discovers he can time travel back and alter things. every time he changes something though, something else go's wrong,hence, "the butterfly effect' or 'chaos theory'. in case you don't know , the 'butterfly effect' is the theory that a butterfly can flap it's wings somewhere and the tiny gust of wind it makes can cause a tidal wave halfway around the world. the story is riveting, like all the ordeals he go's through as things get worse and worse, and the story slipping back and forth in time, and of course there's Kutcher in it and that's a bonus. still, the only people who'd watch this are people who like gloom and death and violence. these things can all be made exciting in a holly wood film with all the cinematics and twists and turns, but who really wants to see something so miserable and pretty much void of any closure at the end (that abortion thing was terrible), completely spoiled by a huge overdose of profanity, violence and sexual content? not worth the rental fee.