The Time Machine Reviews

tragic and touching story

The first five minnutes of it, I really started getting into it, it has a different story line to the original.

The story is a about a professor (guy pierce) who looses his girl friend and he creates a timemachine to go back and save her. It really is a good film and I can watch it over and over again, you can really feel the pain and loss guy pierce is going through in the scene when he loses his girl friend. This film explane's alot of things the original didn't. Its kind of a romatic movie.

You either love it or you hate it.

The Time Machine (2002)

While the 1960 version remains a science fiction classic, this adaptation of H. G. Wells novel benefits from a dazzling CGI facelift. .................................................. .................................................. ........... Digital wizardry shows us the awesome splendor of eons passing in an eye blink, while Wells's heroic time traveler (played with appealing conviction by Guy Pearce) is given a stronger motivation for piloting his time machine 8000,000 years into the future. .................................................. .................................................. ............. He finds peace with the primitive Eloi, after confronting the subterranean Morlocks & the evil overlord (Jeremy Irons). .................................................. .................................................. ............. Trading Wells's social commentary for pure adventure, Director Simon Wells (the author's great-grandson) maintains the story's legacy of wonder. .................................................. .................................................. ............. It caters to a younger audience, it is fun without being particularly distinguished. .................................................. .................................................. ...... A treat for the eyes, if not the brain.

The Time Machine

I really enjoyed this film. It's the kind of film I would have really loved when I was young but can still appreciate now I'm approaching middle age. It's got an older feel to it with modern day special effects. Great stuff.

Good remake this.Excellent effects throughout and a brilliant lead role from Guy Pearce as the typical nutty proffessor.Jeremy Irons excels as the leader of the Morlocks, brilliant stuff!A bit worrying about the events of 2037 though....if you're curious you'll have to watch it!

Nice update...

When I was young I read alot of HG Wells and loved the original film. Intrigued by this new telling of the tale and wasn't particularly disappointed. It's handled very well by the able cast and is pleasant viewing. If you want a challenging film, look elsewhere but worth a look on a rainy Sunday afternoon!

If you have got nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon than watch a film, then you would not come away from this one feeling that you had wasted your time. However, if the fence needs creosoting or the dog needs a bath then this is what you should be doing.

The whole film comes across as very run of the mill. It keeps your attention (just) but what it lacks is excitement, with the actors seemingly doing just enough to get paid at the end of it.

The Time Machine - if only I had one to save watching this again.

This film had the makings of being one of those 'all time greats'.

Visually it was really quite good throughout, except for some men in strange costumes out of you local theatre group, and some of the sequences really had that wow factor.

The biggest let down was the editing.

This film has been chopped so much from it's original length it's all to obvious, leaving you wondering why the lead character already knows his arch enemy upon arrival in his lair.

There was so much scope to follow the book and use modern film techniques to realise it, but it's been shortened to the point of being pointless.

I really do hope a Directors Cut appears that's the full length to do it justice, otherwise this will be just another bad book to film conversions.

Guy Pearce (Neighbours Star) And Samantha Mumba (singer/songwriter) act in this sci-fi fantasy picture based on the novel by H.G.wells.

now the overall film is ok .. but the critisism comes from the film not based but rather the adaptation of the novel anyone who has seen the original will know .. however guy plays the part of a scientist trying to re-invent the machine and whilst trying to go back in time to succsesfully change what happened to his finance, never the less this does not work out the way he wants it too, enter loves young dream samatha mumba.

nothing like the original film, Guy Pearce was very good, but i felt that it was lacking warmth and a personal touch, without the thoughts of the leading role from Guy Pearce as it was with Rod Taylor in the original film, but after saying this the effects where great, and acting very good, if i had to give this film amark from 1-10 i'm afraid it would have to be a 6, the original one has got to be a 10.

Time Gentlemen Please

An enjoyable adaptation of the HG Wells novel, which attempts to do something a little different from previous versions. In this version the time machine can travel backwards in time but the crazy professor, played by the excellent Guy Pearce, soon finds that he cannot change the past so he heads off into the future. Unfortunately this wastes a good portion of the movie with a futile Quantum Leap type storyline which doesn't go anywhere.

To make up for the time lost with travelling back in time it skips far too much of the story of his journey into the future. While the original Victorian story was commended for its predictions of future society and events ( such as World War 2 )current history is skipped over in this movie, no doubt to avoid it being overly long. Before you know it you are 10 billion years in the future ( or thereabouts ). Here the story really gets going with the peaceful human decendents menaced by the underground morlocks. Pearce does a good job in the lead and Samantha Mumba makes a surprise appearance in a supporting role. Its silly but enjoyable sci fi fun, a new take on an old story and very watchable.