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(1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten Page   1   3.5/5 "Una vez que creemos que el viaje es posible, podemos pasar a disfrutar por completo las secuencias."   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez "a true original - and while it quite possibly contains as many holes as its protagonist's memory, half the fun is finding your way through them."   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel 1.5/4 "The writing/directing duo behind the overly-gory but occasionally clever Final Destination 2 take their material entirely too seriously this time around."   Slant Magazine   Chris Barsanti "The movie's focus is excessively local -- there are no Hitlers or Elvises or Skynets here, just a series of minor and major disasters, each making someone's life unbearable."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 55/100 "Too self-consciously silly to support the promising premise"   Cinemania   Dan Jardine C+ ""The Butterfly Effect" tries to prove that small actions have big effects... but it really proves that January movies tend to suck."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 3/4 "If you're able to observe things without the intention of analyzing every detail until they make perfect sense, then this is quite an observant moviegoeing experience."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes "It's better -- and smarter -- than you'd expect, and well worth a look. "   Portland Tribune   Dawn Taylor D "This is not your typical absurd time travel fantasy film: it's much worse."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3.5/4 "The first great motion picture of 2004, and certain to be one of the best of the whole year."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman "Time travel for the MTV generation."   City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul   Ed Gonzalez C+ "While it nimbly walks the line between absurdity and suspense for a while, it is Kutcher's hammy, amateurish (hammateurish?) performance that finally knocks it over the edge."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B+ "This movie is thinking -- it's not always thinking straight, but it's always thinking."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "La película nos presenta una premisa interesante, pero nunca atiende su potencial."   Doncinema.com   Flavio J. Arosemena 1.5/4 "...a cockeyed and pseudo-driven theatrics showcase that squanders its suspenseful intent...a disturbing yet disjointed ball of a metaphysical mess"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D+ "Ultimately more chore than pleasant diversion. After sitting through nearly two hours of this movie, you might welcome a blackout yourself."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "This is a compelling and intriguing movie that toys with the powers of choice and chance in a way that is not overused."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "for people who like to think about things without really [I]thinking[/I] about them"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 2/4 "Style takes precedence over substance, special effects over smart scripting, and jumpy scares over solid theatrics."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 6/10 "Walks a super-thin line between horrific believability and hilarious unbelievability."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 8/10 "The first 'must see' movie of the year."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo "...filmmakers frequently cheat the facts (even their own), but as straightforward entertainment, this butterfly spreads its wings in many unexpected ways. "   Light Views   John Larsen 6/10 "The real beauty of the script is Kutcher, who technically embodies several different versions of his character but only had to act one way."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3.5/4 "Dude, where’s more thrillers as good as this one?"   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2.5/4 "Cheap thrills and trashy fun but hey, it’s January, I’ll take whatever thrills and fun I can get, however cheap or trashy."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest D+ "uses a series of disturbingly dark events to spin off story threads that become more and more hysterical...the results are sickening and silly"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/5 "Deeply disturbing material -- murder, suicide, insanity, kiddie porn, animal abuse and more -- mixes uncomfortably with the film's time-travel conceit, which requires some serious suspension of disbelief."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "[I]f I could go back in time and prevent Ashton Kutcher’s agent from being born... then my brain would be flooded with memories of an Ashton Kutcher-free multiplex!"   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Consistently thoughtful and occasionally surprising--which, in the traditional January movie wasteland, is no small feat."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 1/4 "The message we take away seems to be that if you’re screwed, you’re screwed, and there’s nothing you can do about it."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan D "If I could go back in time, I'd try to talk myself out of deciding to watch this movie. "   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 3/5 "Pena que a dupla de roteiristas não pôde realizar façanha semelhante à do herói e voltar no tempo a fim de rever suas decisões: o último ato do filme merecia uma nova chance."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca "'The Butterfly Effect' takes what could have been a one-joke premise and comes up with a lot of impressive riffs on familiar material."   Critic Doctor   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "Scary and disturbing, but also somewhat simple-minded and repetitive."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3/5 "Tries hard to be affecting and mind-blowing, and sometimes it comes close."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "There is a difference between the thrilling and the merely cruel. The Butterfly Effect fails because it can't make that distinction."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C "Rather than the butterfly effect, the real idea of the film seems to be the Murphy effect."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C "I wanted "The Butterfly Effect" to end long before the completion of its near two-hour run time."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 4/5 "Bress & Gruber dole out their surprises with a calm confidence that belies their relative inexperience."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg C- "Ashton Kutcher wants to be taken seriously so badly it hurts. So does this metaphysical mess of a movie..."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker D "The insensitive execution results in a Twilight Zone twist as imagined by Charles Manson."   Eclipse Magazine   Sean O'Connell 2.5/4 "A surprisingly watchable B-movie thriller with its fair share of nifty twists."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 3/4 "A great little genre picture that wallows in ugliness, child abuse, animal abuse, classism, and misogyny."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw D- Read review   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf 5/10 Read review   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger Read review   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley  (1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten Page   1