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movie review - The Time Machine

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is an adaptation of the Sci-Fi novel by the same name, by author HG Wells. It's about a scientist in 19th century America who invents a time machine in order to travel back to the night of his fiancee's death in an attempt to undo that event. He fails, and winds up bouncing around the future all the way up to 800,000 AD, when the world is a very, very different place.

The movie is well made, nicely paced, and contains some interesting ideas. It tends to fall apart in a number of deviations from what I remember of the original story, though. Deviations are to be expected, but these don't really work in the movie. I won't give those away, but I will say go into this one expecting to be entertained until the last 90 seconds or so. ;)

Recommended.