The Butterfly Effect Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Ethan Suplee, Melora Walters, Elden Henson, Eric Stoltz, Kevin Schmidt, Cameron Crigger, William Lee Scott, Logan Lerman Synopsis: A young man with repressed childhood memories comes up with a way to travel back in time and possess his younger self
However, each time he goes back trying to correct something in the present, the mess of his present life just gets worse and worse. Format: DVD Color: Color Rating: R RatingReason: violence, sexual content, language and brief drug use Genre: Suspense Runtime: 113 Year: 2004
I saw a screening of this movie and as much as I expected to be non-plussed at best, it was amazing. Like a cross between Memento and a dark It's A Wonderful Life, the movie plays with time, reality, and the greatest "What if?" that there's ever been.
While "The Butterfly Effect" wasn't critically acclaimed or well loved by everyone, I thought it was a pretty good movie when I first saw it at the theatres. It was a dark and completely disturbing film that made me want to look away at times, but at the same time I was very intrigued. My only problem was the ending. I thought it really contradicted the whole theme of the movie, but I always suspected that the so-called "happy ending" was forced upon since the movie is so dark and hard to watch that they..
Because most of the critics slammed this movie, I went to see it expecting a lot less than I got. I thought the movie was fine: rich plot, good pacing, intense drama, and solid performances by all of the actors. Ashton Kutcher, who has a great screen presence (I've never seen him before; don't watch much TV) played the role with just the right degrees of intensity, bewiderment, and desperation. Amy Smart's performance fluctuated convincingly from loyal lover, to air-headed ingenue, to hardened prostitute..
