kitellis-98121 This is a film that I honestly didn't see coming. For starters, it was a totally new concept (at least for me) to have a time-travel film that follows the people left behind by the time traveller, rather than the traveller himself. For a while I was disappointed to be missing out on the adventure, but the characters and events were compelling enough that I soon got sucked into an interesting and nuanced drama about loss and abandonment.And then, when I had almost forgotten about the time-travel angle, the son of the original time-traveller, now grown-up, travels back in time to visit his father in the past (where he's on his way to a visit with Einstein) and, without wanting to spoil anything, the method the son uses to convince his father to go back to the future was utterly unexpected.This was a film filled with subtlety, nuance, originality, and thoughtfulness. It was dramatic without being melodramatic. It was tragic without being depressing. It was intellectual without being pompous. It was adventurous without being mindless. It was science-fiction without being... well... science-fiction.And it was also very nicely made, with attractive cinematography, a pleasant orchestral score, leafy collegial locations, solid direction, and a respectable, talented cast.I didn't have any hopes or expectations when I started watching. But by the end I was utterly captivated and somewhat blown away by the originality of what I'd just watched. I love it when a movie does that, as it's a rare treat that doesn't come around very often.

lesley_givens I am super fascinated by the idea of time travel and have seen every single movie on the subject. Maybe that's why I am always expecting to finally find something new, original, something I haven't seen in like 20 other movies.Unfortunately, I failed to find it in this one. Everything was so painfully predictable that I had plenty of "facepalm" moments, which is never a good sign.It's a shame, because 90% of the reviews were positive and I had great expectations. This is exactly why I usually never go through the reviews.All in all - bad acting, bad cast, weak movie. I saw it yesterday and I already forgot what was it about!

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.

rekall1900 Why only a 6 for a movie that should have at least an 8 rating? This is the time travel movie for those who doubt that time travel would be possible. Using a valid theory from quantum mechanics in physics the Everett interpretation of Many Worlds theory {Many- worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). That theory stands in modern physics as possible and this movie makes it real. Not one of those time travel movies that keeps throwing you back and forth like it is easy - this one takes the subject seriously and only asks that you allow one main event to be altered - Could it happen that way? - Maybe, but you gotta love the way they do it - they make it seem real. Good acting, good drama and character development, well directed with a good even pace - If your tired of watching the same type of probably not time travel films give this one a shot and you too might say - Maybe, just maybe it could happen."The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." -Arthur C. Clarke"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke