view_and_review What I find truly astounding is that "The Butterfly Effect 2" was horrid yet TBE3:Revelations was actually decent. Usually movies get progressively worse with each sequel but this was significantly better than its immediate predecessor.What I enjoyed about TBE3 is that it had a purpose. It wasn't abstract or general, it was very specific. Sam (Chris Carmack) was a skilled "jumper" (jumping back to the past) with rules, with one being not to interfere but only to witness. He would witness crimes and then report them to the police. It's when he jumps for a crime closer to home that he begins to alter timelines.This new angle on his time travel is quite clever and it works. Instead of the "jumping" ability being accidentally discovered we're past that and we're on to an intelligent use of the ability. When you strip away the time travel aspect you're left with a whodunit mystery. Being that the person Sam is looking for is never revealed until the end you are steadily guessing and bracing yourself for the shock. I guess they could only go up from part two so bravo for the quasi-redemption.

g_imdb-204-244823 There are plenty of good summaries out there so I won't write you another. Lots of time travel, lots of questions, not so many answers. There's also a fair amount of brutal violence so, consider yourself warned.Actors play their roles very convincingly, Rachel Miner especially hit it out of the park, eclipsing Chris Carmack in every scene that they share.There isn't a lot of explanation of what happens and who the characters are - and I think that's intentional, the viewer has to fill in a lot of blanks along the way. It was a lot of fun to watch the past get rewritten and watch the backgrounds and personalities of characters change dramatically as a result. These changes to the present after he comes back from the jump are pretty reasonable and easy to follow; for instance he goes back in time and commits a crime and has a worse relationship with the police as a consequence.I took off a star only because the villain's plan wasn't as simple as it could have been. Some call it contrived as if it were a bad thing - it's surprising and upon re-watching it makes a lot of sense. If you have a keen eye you might see it coming on the first watch.If I could change anything about this movie I'd axe the epilogue completely and spend another ten minutes or so developing the minor characters.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Well, "The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations" is not a bad movie, but it is not the best of the three movies in the series. That being said, don't get me wrong, because the movie is still watchable and enjoyable.However, the changes brought about in this movie by the jumping back in time events really weren't as impressive as in the first movies. But from the story aspect, then "The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations" had a rather nice approach to the events that evolved around the storyline.There is a high chance of some confusion arising from some of the scenes. At least right up until the ending, because some of the stuff that was happening wasn't overly coherent at all times. But it was all cleared up towards the ending.As for the actual ending of the movie, well, I will say that it didn't really go all that well with me. But of course, this is a matter of preference.The actors and actresses in the movie were doing good enough jobs with their given roles. Nothing overly outstanding or memorable here though.Personally I found the sex scene to be really tacky, and it shouldn't have been in the movie at all. It is just so 1980's, and doesn't really help the movie along one bit.Having seen the movie now, I think this is the type of movie that quickly fades and dissipates from memory, as most of the previous movies did. Good enough entertainment here and now, but hardly sustainable in the long run.I am giving "The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations" 5 out of 10 stars, because it was enjoyable enough, but there was just something lacking to make it unique.

felixoteiza Pretty good flick. Entertaining too and well structured. And one with some similarities with Identity in that it got both strong scientific (theoretical) bases and an end twist--or rather two—which may seem contrived while being completely legit. In Identity it was psychology, here is physics, or rather the paradoxes of time travel. Now, this is the first one I see from this franchise so bear with me if you have already seen the others.The main theoretical difficulty for traveling to the past is that it may create impossible, contradictory, situations. The best known thought experiment about it is that of a man who goes to the past and kills his own grandfather, while this last is still a boy, so he won't have any kids; so the killer will not be born, so he won't be able to kill his grandfather. The solution to the paradox lies in the idea of an infinite number of coexisting alternate universes, realities, containing each possible outcome for each possible event. It's like a plot which starts with a man coming out of his house and: a) taking a walk; b) being hit by a car; c) taking a bus d).. All these secondary events--and the ones coming after, and the next, to infinity--are there, available, but it's only one, or rather one lineal sequence of them which constitutes what we call our reality, chain of events, History. (ex.: said man takes bus, goes to his office.) That's all you need to know to understand the plot of this movie.Sam can travel to the past and change events and so change the future of people. He uses this gift also to witness murders past, tipping the police about the murderers. He has been warned also he shouldn't change things, as he'd change also chains of events. He did it once, when going back in time to save his sister from a fire in which she died. He saved her but at the price of losing their parents in the same fire. What torments now Sam is that his girlfriend Rebecca was murdered later by what seems to be a serial killer. He sets to find her killer after being begged to do it by her sister, who despairs that an innocent man will be executed for that crime. As feared, Sam makes matters worse when now both sisters are murdered, because of his intervention. The movie moves along this line of action, with Sam insisting in going to the past to repair things, only to make them worse, creating a bleak present for him and those around, against strong pleads from his sister. In that process, people who liked him now hate him, some are killed and then reappear alive and so on. Finally he uncovers the killer, but he's confronted then with the most heartbreaking dilemma of his life. He takes the right moral decision; he had no other choice, really, as his primary objective was to save lives.This is mostly an action driven flick, for which the cinematography and the action just need to be appropriate--which they are. Little known actors fit well this kind of plot, as they'll just have to pretend they are in the given situation-no need to fill the screen, please. The pacing is good, the plot development impeccable. The tension and mood set in from the beginning and stay for the duration. Atmosphere is not something you'll be missing here.But above all TBE has a very well structured plot. Some may feel cheated by the identity of the serial killer at the end, but they shouldn't. This isn't your regular psycho who murders to indulge in his twisted fantasies or for revenge for wrongs past but a human psyche who has regressed to savagery. This killer can be really seen as a wild animal in human form, which marks its territory and then attacks anyone entering it. That's why this murderer doesn't fit the usual serial killer profile. Also, don't fall for the simplistic "It was just a dream" formula as it seems to be used here. This one is trickier than that. The fact that both Rebecca--or her sister--and the parents are alive doesn't give us any clue, as it would have been so in any case. We don't even know if the sister really existed, nobody mentions her. Was it all just a dream Sam had while napping in the car? What we saw before that really happened? Are the actions of the kid at the closing a hint of reincarnation or, worse, the shape of things to come? Sorry, but no hints there; draw your own conclusions. 7/10.