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The Plot Makes No Sense Whatsoever!
by Jeremy O (movies profile)
Nov 17, 2006
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26 people found this review helpful
This is definately one of the worst movies of all-time and will probably go down in history as one of the worst box office bombs ever.
I liked the initial idea, referring to chaos theory and the heisenberg principle -- both topics covered in Jurassic Park. On the other hand this was also reminiscent of The Butterfly Effect (which both are much better movies than this).
Spoiler alert... But you're not going to watch this movie anyway, so what...
The plot is totally nonsensical. A team of profiteering time travellers take very wealthy aristocrats back in time to various events in history. One of these events focuses on the hunt of a T-Rex back 65 million years ago. Interestingly, every jump back in time requires the utmost attention not to disturb anything or change history. I buy this idea, and it poses some interesting questions, but the way the film explores this topic is utterly and completely askew of anything bearing any resemblance to a logical storyline.
When they go back in time, a portal opens up and a pathway stretches into the area of the jump so that they can walk on it and not disturb the surroundings. Okay so far.
But... As the team comes out, we realize that they are stalking a T-Rex who is about to die in a few minutes anyway, fall into a tarpit, and then be encased in ash and lava from a volcano that is about to erupt in 5 minutes. Okay. Fair enough.
So they kill the beast, the volcano comes and destroys everything in its path after they leave. Nothing has been disturbed in history.
Then we find out just how crazy the screenwriter is.
When we see them take in a second client for another jump... The logical inconsistencies abound.
1. They go back to kill the SAME animal in the same location at the same time that they have killed in every previous mission with every client. Are you kidding me? They would meet themselves back in time hunting the same animal! Makes no sense!
2. They also make reference to taking their clients to other historical events such as walking on the moon with Neil Armstrong. Once again, ridiculous. They would meet other time travellers, and secondly, I find it impossible to understand how they could be on the moon without the astronauts seeing them.
3. If this machine has the power to transport them to the moon and wherever else on Earth, my god!, they could use it as a teleportation device around the universe. No mention is made of such a use though.
4. And the coup de gras... The critical element of the story in which a client steps off the path and kills a butterfly would NOT change the course of evolutionary history. Because he kills this butterfly, the film explains that evolution changes as we know it because this butterfly didn't pollinate a flower, which then didn't ensure the survival of another herbivore, in turn a carnivore, etc.
The problem IS, folks, THE VOLCANIC ERUPTION COMING TO DESTROY THE T-REX IS GOING TO DESTROY THE BUTTERFLY AND ANY PLANTS THIS BUTTERFLY COULD HAVE POLLINATED. Hence, any action taken prior to this volcanic eruption would have absolutely NO effect on anything whatsoever, especially evolution.
In fact, they claim that humans will become creatures resembling a pokemon character due to this incredible blunder in time.
Thus, as you can see, the movie is a complete waste of time. There are all sorts of CGI monsters that the crew must struggle against, which are fairly uninteresting. The characters are annoying for the most part. I have no idea what these actors were thinking when they signed up for roles in this movie. This is a complete waste of time and money, and an insult to the intelligence of anyone who enjoys science fiction.
Rent Jurassic Park, Butterfly Effect, Timeline, or Back to the Future. All are much better than this flaming piece of dung. |
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