Paul Evans The sci fi mystery movie is a genre of film that is sadly almost non existent. So when they come along hopes are high, the likes of The Adjustment Bureau, Limitless, The Forgotten, all superb films. When I saw Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell heading this up I was so excited.Sadly one the hype had gone, and I settled into the film, I found it quite boring, the concept was huge, they could have done and gone anywhere, bit sadly we got too much melodrama, we could have had Einstein, we could have had huge scale events, but instead we got domestic goings on, so disappointing.Anderson was excellent as you'd expect, but the film was stollen by Haley Joel Osment, who was brilliant.It's not bad, it just fails to ignite.

bingoBongo I recently found this movie on Netflix, and being a huge fan of time travel movies, I thought I would give this a shot.Also, I was intrigued to see Haley Joel Osment acting again.The time travel part of this movie was solid enough - a few wires here and flashes there - that is how its done in other movies, so without actually being able to do so in real life, who is to say what is right. It also seemed like the crew worked hard to make sure continuity was good, and the time travel bits made sense.What lets the movie down to a rock bottom flaw though, is the utter disinterest of the cast. All lines in the movie are phoned in, no one seems to know what their lines mean, or have a general understanding of the story in the movie. The dialogue is a jumble of uncomfortable pauses between disjointed lines and forced kisses on actresses. (Gillian Anderson literally says "Okay?" after being kissed by her husband character, in what looks like an uncomfortable event)It seems the budget went entirely into hiring some well known faces, and did nothing positive with them. This disengagement is not their fault, but rather the director and writers, for not inspiring them to believe in their roles, and feeding them a stream of single-take disjointed lines that look more like statements, than natural dialogue between people.The director seems to have a long way to go for building believable rapport, and possibly didn't have the experience to handle a star studded cast. This is the key flaw. By the end, suddenly everyone believed in time travel for no reason or proof, wrapped up on questionable morals. All the best scenes you could image being fun, were happening off camera in your mind, or possibly in another movie.Watch at your peril, this is probably the worst time travel movie ever made!N.B. the grab of distribution name "Continuum", for foreign release, actually stole the name of an existing Canadian TV show, about time travel (this movie is Canadian). A cheap move for making market confusion to sell this bargain basement movie.

lavatch This low-budget film out of Canada combines a clever time-travel premise with an abundance of sentimentality. Haley Joel Osment is good as the young time-traveler/scientist, who journeys through time from 2012 to 1946, to meet with the father whom he lost in the same wormhole.Gillian Anderson is also good as the bereaved wife of a husband whose secret life as a time-traveler she never knew. The plot is unfortunately mired in an unnecessary relationship of Osment's character Erol and his girlfriend, who seeks to persuade him not to take the plunge into the time warp in search of his lost father.SPOILER ALERT FOLLOWS: A golden opportunity was missed when young Erol meets his father at the moment when he attempts to have a private conversation with Albert Einstein. The father knocks on Einstein's door in Princeton, N.J. in 1946, but Einstein is out for a walk. Incredibly, the filmmakers do not follow through with what could have been a great scene with the iconic scientist.Some of the best scenes were those of young Osment with Victor Garber's character of Gramps, who is working with him on the time machine. But filled with melodramatic scenes, especially the shocking ending, "I'll Follow You Down" is overwhelmed with maudlin and mundane moments that detract from the excitement of what should have been the single-minded focus of the film: time travel.

MartinHafer "I'll Follow You Down" is just out on DVD and it's certainly not a typical sort of sci-fi film. It's a lot slower, more deliberate and a bit more cerebral than many films in the genre, but if you are patient I think it's worth your time.When the film begins, a professor goes off on a business trip and never returns. Exactly what happened and where he is now is a complete mystery. Unfortunately, his family does not handle his disappearance well. His wife (Gillian Anderson) becomes very depressed and over the following dozen years, she attempts suicide repeatedly. His son, Erol (played as an adult by Haley Joel Osment), is a mess as well and abandons his extremely promising career in favor of staying home and keeping an eye out on his unstable mom. He's also trying to balance his relationship with his girlfriend...and he's having a poor time with all these pressures. As for the disappeared man's father, Sal (Victor Gerber), he's also got his problems. To put it bluntly, they're all a mess. However, there is a strange and unbelievable chance that all this mess can be avoided when Sal looks through his son's notes and realizes that the guy MIGHT have disappeared when he tried out a time machine. He might have gone back to the 1940s and somehow never found his way back. Can he and his super-genius grandson, Erol, somehow construct their own time device and prevent the disappearance in the first place...and thus save the family?If you want a film to jump into the action, this is NOT a film for you. The work to create this second time machine didn't even begin until about 2/3 of the way through the film and many folks will be annoyed by this slow pace. However, I didn't mind because once the film finally got moving, it really paid off well. The ending also manages to offer some surprises--something that seems to happen too infrequently.In addition to an interesting plot, I liked seeing an adult Osment. His career has been a bit slower of late as he's clearly not some gifted child actor anymore and much of his recent work has been done doing voiceovers for video games. While not looking anything like a typical leading man, he was nice in the film--and Gerber and Anderson were also very, very nice. Overall, I'd recommend this film mostly because it is so unique.