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NUMBERS
Box Office: $56,684,819
VHS Rentals: $5,040,000
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CONSENSUS
This Machine has all the razzle-dazzles of modern special effects, but the movie takes a turn for the worst when it switches from a story about lost love to a confusing action-thriller.
CAST & CREW
Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones
Directed by Simon Wells
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SYNOPSIS
Scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to change the past. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, intense sequences of action violence
RUNTIME
1 hour, 36 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Mar 8, 2002
Video: Jul 23, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
DreamWorks Distribution LLC
GENRE
Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Time Travel, Adaptation, Future/Futuristic Worlds, Based On A Novel
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Time Machine Site
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 "Characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "... a thoughtful what-if for the heart as well as the mind."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES
"It’s rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from “promising” to “interesting” to “familiar” before landing squarely on “stupid”."
-- Scott Weinberg, APOLLO GUIDE
"The secrets of time travel will have been discovered, indulged in and rejected as boring before I see this piece of crap again."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"Being author Wells' great-grandson, you'd think filmmaker Simon Wells would have more reverence for the material. But this costly dud is a far cry from either the book or the beloved film."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"the film tunes into a grief that could lead a man across centuries."
-- Joshua Vasquez, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"I love the opening scenes of a wintry New York City in 1899. Cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"They presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson, however entertainingly presented, so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"The question hanging over The Time Machine is not, as the main character suggests, 'what if?' but rather, 'How can you charge money for this?'"
-- Gemma Tarlach, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"A charmingly old-fashioned adventure yarn,...but spruced up
with state-of-the-art special effects...an affectionately realized
updating of the old tale."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"If you want a movie time trip, the 1960 version is a far smoother ride."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"A few pieces of the film buzz and whir; very little of it actually clicks. The thing just never gets off the ground."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"What's missing is what we call the 'wow' factor."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
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"Apesar de seus graves problemas, o filme consegue entreter."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"This new Time Machine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable. Even at its worst, it's not half-bad."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"... with the gifted Pearce on hand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatically, this retooled Machine is ultimately effective enough at achieving the modest, crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself."
-- Michael Tunison, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"A very average science fiction film."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"For every cheesy scene, though, there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian (Orlando Jones) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
". It's a brilliant revision of the book and it offers a motivation for the invention that's lacking in the first film version."
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"... there's a choppy, surface-effect feeling to the whole enterprise."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"“The Time Machine” is a movie that has no interest in itself. It doesn’t believe in itself, it has no sense of humor…it’s just plain bored."
-- Collin Souter, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"New Yorkers always seem to find the oddest places to dwell..."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Less dizzying than just dizzy, the jaunt is practically over before it begins."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
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ROTTEN 20%
Avg. Rating: 5/10 |
"The movie obviously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as Jules Verne's '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' and the George Pal version of H.G. Wells' 'The Time Machine.' But its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"One of those staggeringly well-produced, joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next, hastily, emptily."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"The far future may be awesome to consider, but from period detail to matters of the heart, this film is most transporting when it stays put in the past."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"If Welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two, he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"... an agreeable time-wasting device -- but George Pal's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs."
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"... surprisingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between epochs."
-- Paul Tatara, CNN
"If H.G. Wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin's reworked version, what would he say? 'It looks good, Sonny, but you missed the point.'"
-- Jeff Strickler, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
"It will delight newcomers to the story and those who know it from bygone days."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"This version of H.G. Wells' Time Machine was directed by H.G. Wells' great-grandson. They should have found Orson Welles' great-grandson."
-- Joel Siegel, ABCNEWS.COM
"Bears resemblance to, and shares the weaknesses of, too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
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"A zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects, hoary dialogue, fluxing accents, and -- worst of all -- silly-looking Morlocks."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
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* Certain "The Time Machine" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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