Where do I start? Got tickets for a free preview at a nice theater, so I went, despite the film looking really stupid and it's star being the clownish Ashton Kutcher in a *dramatic* role. This film is bad on so many levels, on all the levels I can think of. I cannot believe that someone actually made a decision to pay him a large sum of money to be in this movie. Unfathomable.
What the film is about...Spoilers..........
Ten year old kid has psychotic episodes and blacks out. Mother, played by the woman who was the cokehead in Magnolia, freaks out and goes to Psychologist who suggests kid keep a journal in order to remember his black outs. He has some more black outs, each linked with a traumatic event in his life, and then we jump to him in college, played by Ashton Kutcher. He happens to start reading his journals again, and when he gets to the blackout parts, he suddenly warps back into himself at that moment, able to change the trauma that happens at that point in time. After the change in childhood, he warps back to college age, and the change in his history brings about a change in his present. But with each change he makes for the better, something else ends up worse. So he keeps having to right these unintentional wrongs he has created. Eventually he does, but by only sacrificing his relationship with his one true love. Or does he? Very Hollywood.
Ashton Kutcher does a horrible job as this character, although I must admit that this character sucks, so in theory he should be perfect for this, but he's not. Every other actor character has to play like 3 other characters, and it is really hard to be convinced by any of their performances, although the girl who plays his girlfriend does a tolerable job. There were parts in the film where I couldn't help but laugh quietly at the actors even though it was obviously not supposed to be funny. There were people from the distribution company in the theater and I think the crowd was a bit afraid to offend them with negative reactions like laughter at their products failures. If I had paid money, I don't think it would be too funny. It might be worth paying 2 hours worth of cable.
This movie is on its knees, praying it was Donnie Darko.
What the film is about...Spoilers..........
Ten year old kid has psychotic episodes and blacks out. Mother, played by the woman who was the cokehead in Magnolia, freaks out and goes to Psychologist who suggests kid keep a journal in order to remember his black outs. He has some more black outs, each linked with a traumatic event in his life, and then we jump to him in college, played by Ashton Kutcher. He happens to start reading his journals again, and when he gets to the blackout parts, he suddenly warps back into himself at that moment, able to change the trauma that happens at that point in time. After the change in childhood, he warps back to college age, and the change in his history brings about a change in his present. But with each change he makes for the better, something else ends up worse. So he keeps having to right these unintentional wrongs he has created. Eventually he does, but by only sacrificing his relationship with his one true love. Or does he? Very Hollywood.
Ashton Kutcher does a horrible job as this character, although I must admit that this character sucks, so in theory he should be perfect for this, but he's not. Every other actor character has to play like 3 other characters, and it is really hard to be convinced by any of their performances, although the girl who plays his girlfriend does a tolerable job. There were parts in the film where I couldn't help but laugh quietly at the actors even though it was obviously not supposed to be funny. There were people from the distribution company in the theater and I think the crowd was a bit afraid to offend them with negative reactions like laughter at their products failures. If I had paid money, I don't think it would be too funny. It might be worth paying 2 hours worth of cable.
This movie is on its knees, praying it was Donnie Darko.