sakram
The Butterfly Effect is a movie that starts so strong, and goes on like that until it finishes, it is disturbing and intense, and so confusing, until the ending which clarifies everything.It is well written and deserves all the praise, it deals with alternate universes within the scope of realism as well as the butterfly effect which is the main concept of this movie. Everything was handled pretty well and I will definitely watch this again !9/10
Aram Isaac
Holy snap! That was just an awesome movie! It really is underrated. The quote 'You can't change who people are without destroying who they were' is stuck in my head. It is so mind-blowing if you think about subjects like time-travelling! I watched the film multiple times, and I'm still impressed how good the movie is. All the people who say the film is bad, are people who don't like movies without action or those are the people which don't like complicated movies. The film was pretty complicated, but awesome. The sequels are very good too, but they are rated very bad. I can understand why, but everything is so mind-blowing and good, I just can't hate the film. Just, watch this!
Wuchak
Released in 2004 and directed/written by Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber, "The Butterfly Effect" is a sci-fi/thriller/horror starring Ashton Kutcher as a young man who suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. In college he finds a way to remember these lost memories and, more significantly, alter bad events by supernaturally traveling to the past via focusing on the words in his old journals. Unfortunately, changing the past has unforeseen repercussions. Amy Smart plays his girlfriend and William Lee Scott her psycho (or maybe not) brother. Melora Walters appears as his mother while Elden Henson plays his pal, Lenny.This is an ambitious movie that cogently shows how changing one element of the past has a ripple effect, both positive and negative. The constant change in timeline makes the story seem jumbled at first, but the movie finds its footing and everything ultimately makes sense. Kutcher is surprisingly good in the lead role while Amy is solid in support, and fetching. Where the movie sometimes goes off the rails is the exaggerated behavior of some of the characters throughout. The way they act just doesn't ring true and it comes across goofy, like characters in a comedic slasher flick. It's as if the writers don't understand how real people act in the situations in question; even wackos don't behave as portrayed. As such, these sequences come off surreal at best. But, if you can handle this glaring flaw, "The Butterfly Effect" is a worthwhile quasi-horror flick, although be forewarned that icky topics are breached (but thankfully only breached). The film runs 113 minutes while the Director's Cut with the originally-intended ending runs 120 minutes. The consensus is that the theatrical version is superior to the bleak, cold and grotesque climax of the Director's Cut. The locations are awesome, by the way, shot in the Vancouver area. GRADE: Borderline B-/C+
marianajb
Wow! What a lot of crap I just saw, incredible! I have too say that the only brain damaged during this film was mine. It really impressed me the thousands of clichés that this movie has; it was one after the other one, and it never stopped. Do not get me wrong though, the plot and the whole idea of the butterfly effect is pretty cool, you just need to know how to express it; since it is a very complex idea. Many people say that these movie is underrated because of Ashton Kutcher's performance, but in my opinion, everything else is so bad (and I mean really bad), that I probably didn't pay much of attention to him, but for example, if the direction is bad, and if the actor is not really good, he or she obviously needs that support of the director;and since the direction of this movie its awful, and probably one of the worst I have ever seen, there for everything else is wrong, and awful, and bad, and list goes on (in this movie). There was even a part were I almost cried of how terrible it is.
AD
