Science Fiction

Adventure

Action

The Time Machine

DreamWorks Pictures

Warner Bros. Pictures

Parkes+MacDonald Production

United States of America

English

Guy Pearce

Mark Addy

Phyllida Law

Sienna Guillory

Laura Kirk

Josh Stamberg

John W. Momrow

Max Baker

Jeffrey M. Meyer

Jeremy Irons

Alan Young

Myndy Crist

Connie Ray

Orlando Jones

Lennie Loftin

Thomas Corey Robinson

Samantha Mumba

Omero Mumba

Yancey Arias

Richard Cetrone

Edward Conna

Chris Sayour

Jeremy Fitzgerald

Darrell Davis

Grady Holder

Bryan Friday

Clint Lilley

Mark Kubr

Jeff Podgurski

Dan McCann

Bryon Weiss

Steve Upton

Doug Jones

Joey Anaya

Jacob Chambers

Dorian Kingi

Kevin McTurk

Mike Chaturantabut

Jonathan Eusebio

Roel Failma

Yoshio Iizuka

Diana Lee Inosanto

Chona Jason

Hiro Koda

John Koyama

Alex Madison

R.C. Ormond

Bro Richmond

Petra Sprecher

Gary Toy

Jon Valera

Efia Pearson

Dana Schick

Simon Wells

H. G. Wells

John Logan

Walter F. Parkes

David Valdes

Klaus Badelt

Donald McAlpine

Wayne Wahrman

Mindy Marin

Oliver Scholl

Christopher Burian-Mohr

Bruce Robert Hill

Donald B. Woodruff

Victor J. Zolfo

Deena Appel

Bob Ringwood

John M. Elliott Jr.

Cha Blevins

Rachel Wyn Dunn

Steve Kelso

David Duncan

Robert E. 'Bobby' Powell

Lou Pecora

Jeff Imada

Barbara Lorenz

Stephen Elsbree

Scott H. Eddo

Richard Snell

Angela Stauffer

Gary A. Krakoff

Jeff Butcher

Glenn Forbes

Scott Maginnis

David E. Diano

Vern Nobles

Steven R. Mathis

Hiro Narita

Kevin Tiesiera

John S. Beyers

Joseph Grimaldi

Raman Rao

Robin Alan Knight

John Lowry

Edmondo Sepulveda

William Decker

Chuck Brown

Donald E. Thorin Jr.

Andrew Cooper

Bryce Shields

John Castro

Trudy Ramirez

Sharon 'Mae' West

Michael Kory

Mark Della Rosa

Michael Alkan

Doug Masters

Tom Bertino

Mike Makara

David Prescott

Serge Sretschinsky

Jonathan Egstad

Fumi Mashimo

Scott Wirtz

Sharon Smith Holley

Kevin Clark

Debra Wolff

Kelly G. Crawford

Timothy Eaton

Kevin Elam

Julian Levi

James E. Price

Thomas J. Smith

Erik Nash

Scott Squires

Matt Sweeney

Marcy Craig

Bridgitte Ferry

Marci R. Johnson

Randy Bricker

Gary Burritt

Harrison D. Marsh

Perry Dodgson

Ed Callahan

Charles Ewing Smith

David A. Whittaker

Michael J. Broomberg

Dan O'Connell

John Roesch

Alyson Dee Moore

John T. Cucci

Steve Tushar

Reuben Simon

Mark Mangini

Elliott Koretz

Mike Chock

Eric Lindemann

Gregg Landaker

Steve Maslow

Jennifer Bell

Some interesting and even ambitious aspects but this sci-fi thriller was pretty uneven while the visual effects were also a mixed bag from being fairly impressive for its time (20 years now) to pretty shoddy. On the plus side, Guy Pearce was good in the lead. This one also reminded me when Orlando Jones was in a good amount of movies (18 between 1998-2004). IDK, this is one that did keep me entertained. **3.0/5**

I don't know how to approach this one.

"The Time Machine" is one of those stories that, rereading it, beings back vivid memories. One of my best friends in high school loaned it to me, I stored it away in my backpack for about a month and then...when we had a field trip to The Board of Trade, I scrounged it out and read it on the train ride.

It was one of those stories that is so short I could rip through it in the hour and fifteen minutes between our small town and Chicago. To this day, every time I go back to it, it brings me back to 1997 and, to this day, I distinctly remember finishing it about the time the train stopped and I remember walking into the crowded city feeling like I was in a different world. The story had moved me out of reality so much Chicago seemed jarring.

And then they made it into a movie, a remake of a movie and, watching it, I don't know, I didn't have that same sense of being in a totally different world that the book gave me...

And the movie, in my mind, has to live up to that experience in some small way. Or at least give you that feeling that same feeling that the world was still spinning that one gets when they walk out of a movie and discover that it had rained.

It's an engrossing story and The Time Machine didn't seem to whisk me away like the book did. I can't help but feel it deserved better.

It felt like I was watching a movie and, honestly, it gave me the same since that Jackson's King Kong did, it felt like it was trying and horribly, miserably failed.

I left feeling "meh," and that was after being excited walking into it, I mean, I read it in 1997 and they made a movie in 2002 and, I was expecting the same feeling. I had waited long enough.

So, I don't know, I may be overly harsh on it just because I loved what the story did to me so much, the first time I read it and now, as an adult, it doesn't take me to another world, it takes me back to 1997 again, and high school, and that hour fifteen minute train ride to Chicago.

So ultimately, it could be a halfway decent film that I just hate because the story had such a jarring effect on me when I first encountered it.

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Guy Pearce

Mark Addy

Phyllida Law

Sienna Guillory

Laura Kirk

Josh Stamberg

John W. Momrow

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Jeffrey M. Meyer

Jeremy Irons

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