Tarrabyte I watched this as a kid and I loved it. It was actually not easy to find again considering it's age. This teenager, who sells everything he can on Ubid (at the time it was actually a thing 02), is saving up for a car. While going through his father's old junk from down stairs, he stumbles upon an old wooden box that he knocks off a shelf. In the box is a watch. When he presses a button on the watch it "slows down time" not actually stopping it. Moving so fast thru time, accelerating at the speed of a hummingbirds wing flapping, (google it). His father had explained what it does at one point but not explaining in full detail but calling it "Hypertime.His father is the main creator of the watch and knows how to duplicate it but says instead (like all movies) "What would happen if this got into the wrong hands?"As he figures out the watch, a group of men want it to use for their own purpose. (go figure the bad guys). As the teenager uses the watch, he also learns of it's side affects. When in Hypertime, the body is actually accelerating at hyperspeed as well, causing the cells of the body to age faster. 1 minute in reality is close to something like 5 or 10 minutes. 1 hour? almost something close to 2 days or more. As for a story line, a "hero" like based movie, this is a really good movie and deserves a 2nd film but never happened. If you like the concept of Time manipulation you will like this movie.

ctomvelu1 Clever kiddie movie that harks back to such lighthearted 1980s fantasy fare as "Weird Science" and "Gremlins." Jesse Bradford, playing a Zach Galligan-type teenager, "borrows" his scientist-father's weird watch that allows the wearer to speed up his molecules, so that everyone and everything around him appears to slow down and freeze. He and his new girlfriend have some fun with the device, until they realize they are being pursued by some very unpleasant people who are after the watch. Familiar TV actor French Stewart plays a wacky scientist who comes to the kids' aid. There's really nothing here you haven't seen before, but it is fun while it lasts. Great special effects.

wes-connors Handsome bicycling student Jesse Bradford (as Zak Gibbs) accidentally acquires an unusual watch. No, it doesn't signal the arrival of "Superman", bring back "The Legion of Super-Heroes", or even explain why Mr. Bradford is still in high school. But, the watch does have the power to speed up the molecules of Bradford's body, making the world around him seem to stand still. It's called "Hypertime", after a concept discovered by Bradford's dad, Robin Thomas (after DC Comics' Mark Waid).With awesome power comes awesome responsibility...The watch impresses gorgeous exchange student Paula Garcés (as Francesca), who also seems to have come unstuck in high school. Naturally, Bradford wants to hook up with Ms. Garcés. Meanwhile, funny French Stewart (as Earl Dopler), mad Michael Biehn (as Henry Gates), and other enemy agents want to wrest the watch from Bradford's wrist, putting Garcés and he in grave danger. "Clockstoppers" is an obviously limited-in-appeal effort from "Star Trek" actor/director Jonathan Frakes.***** Clockstoppers (3/17/02) Jonathan Frakes ~ Jesse Bradford, Paula Garces, French Stewart, Michael Biehn

jdavidbakr I actually read about this movie in a trade magazine where they talked about how they did the effects, and had been interested in seeing it since then. When I saw it on Joost, I decided to finally watch it. It's younger than I expected, but overall I had a good time with it. There are a couple of things that bothered me about it, though, and here they are, hence the spoiler warning.I love science fiction and love taking an implausible idea like this and making a set of rules about it. The filmmakers had well-defined rules, I thought, about how the watch worked. And then they promptly broke them in one completely unnecessary scene. The scene I'm talking about is the DJ scene, where the kids move the DJs and make them dance. Now, according to the rules set up, the watch doesn't make the people invisible, it makes them go really fast. So if you sit there and hold a pose for what would be one second in normal time, people would be able to see you. Yet they operate the DJ's invisibly as if they were puppets (also way too fast, if they were really moving them at the speed that they were then their dance moves would be a blur); that scene had the feel to me that someone who didn't write the original screenplay decided to add to get some extra human element into the film, because everything else was so well thought out. The second thing that bothered me initially was the car chase in hypertime, but they did explain that the cars were in hypertime (and since it's a molecular level phenomenon that did end up fitting into the rules set by the filmmakers.) In spite of this, though, I do recommend it and give it a 5 out of 10 rating. Between that one scene, and kind of a lame attempt at creating family tension between the father and son, it only gets 5. But it does get 5, not 3 or 2, because it still was a fun movie.