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(1 - 43) of 43 OFCS Rating: 37% Rotten Page   1   "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."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 2/5 "The good news is that this journey might span 800,000 years, but it will only suck 90 minutes out of your life."   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null "The new film version of The Time Machine is misconceived from jump."   Philadelphia City Paper   Cynthia Fuchs C "New Yorkers always seem to find the oddest places to dwell..."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "Isn't a complete home run, but...is that rare special effects-laden feature that actually uses its brain and has something worthwhile to say."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2/4 "More tragic than the uneven mix of jokes and schlock is the brevity of Irons' cameo role."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C- "A few pieces of the film buzz and whir; very little of it actually clicks. The thing just never gets off the ground."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "This modern version practices what it preaches by taking its theme of forgetting the past by neglecting the rather entertaining first hour in favor of I don’t know what."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B+ "This is a movie both efficient and vast, both ambitious and conventional, both funny and believable."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov B "A charmingly old-fashioned adventure yarn,...but spruced up with state-of-the-art special effects...an affectionately realized updating of the old tale."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "The Time Machine is stupid -- too stupid for the impressive special effects or the competently directed action sequences to wash away the bitter taste."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "full of wondrous images and nothing coherent to say about them"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 2/5 "Here Wells' story has been stripped of whatever intelligence even the 1960 movie had."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 2/5 "Modern take on H.G. Wells's sci-fi classic has great special effects but isn't especially affecting."   Netflix   James Rocchi 2/4 "A preposterous action-adventure that smacks heavily of the laborious "The Mummy"."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 4/10 "This new movie is an eye-candy spectacular but it's seriously lacking in the meaning department."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 3.5/10 "Although it's decent for a while, many viewers will long for their turn in the machine to either go back and choose a different film or fast forward through time to get to the end of this one."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 3/10 "It isn't long before you realize that you're watching an actual cinematic debacle materialize on screen."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 5/10 "...a spectacular disappointment and a colossal waste of...time. "   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 1/5 "After 30 minutes you'll pray for your own Time Machine so you go back to 5 minutes before you decided to see this movie."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 3.5/5 "With one barnyard sound effect Orlando Jones sums up the whole Eloi/Morlock issue & was the most memorable moment in the film."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 1/4 "While this remake of the H.G. Wells' classic novel and 1960 film is indeed a stunning achievement in special effects, his great- grandson and director Simon Wells really needs to go back a year and get the sadly lacking script rewritten."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson B "While comparisons are inevitable, if you go into the 2002 film willing to look at it on its own merits, you will be rewarded."   Countingdown.com   Larry Carroll C+ "That Jeremy Irons’ character should set one to thinking of “Battlefield Earth’s” Travolta is not a good thing."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1.5/4 "The movie simply meanders along, making things up as it goes, and it shows."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 2.5/4 "A great sense of adventure, good-looking special effects, and enough plot holes to sink the movie"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "I got yer time machine right here. See, you buy a ticket to this new Guy Pearce movie, and 90 minutes later, 3 days have passed by."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "All dressed up as some sort of popcorn blockbuster, but it has no idea how to go about getting its job done."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 4/5 "A showy and entertaining story about an idea everyone has dreamed of – having power over time."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 3/5 "Apesar de seus graves problemas, o filme consegue entreter."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca B "This new Time Machine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable. Even at its worst, it's not half-bad."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 3/4 "It is an imaginative adventure yarn with good cinematography, great production design and excellent art direction ... Guy Pearce is effective as the leading man."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B- "...wears its admiration to the George Pal film prominently on its sleeve."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 58/100 "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”."   Apollo Guide   Scott Weinberg B+ "Everything Stephen Sommers' Mummy franchise or Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes wanted to be."   Eclipse Magazine   Sean O'Connell D "Pitiful entertainment, succeeding neither as spectacle, as action-adventure, or as love story."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 1/4 "It isn't that The Time Machine is incoherent, it's that the film aspires after several rewrites to one day become incoherent."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 3/4 "Entertaining, but missing a suitable point."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell 5/10 Read review   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf 6/10 Read review   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 7/10 Read review   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. Read review   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline  (1 - 43) of 43 OFCS Rating: 37% Rotten Page   1