The Butterfly Effect

2004 "Change one thing. Change everything."
7.6| 2h0m| R| en| More Info
Released: 23 January 2004 Released
Producted By: New Line Cinema
Country: United States of America
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A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

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Doug Burr This film seems to have been a clear influence on an amazing video game called Life Is Strange. If you have played that you will know what to expect. The themes are at times a lot darker than I would have expected. There are lots of different sections and some work better than others, but, on the whole this is a great movie. It is a cool concept and emotionally it leaves quite an impact.
Rajeev Anand I really would have given this movie 10/10 but for it's terrible execution I gave it 5/10.The Concept of this movie is really great and how well the story moves around it is also intriguing to watch. There's always a but and here is the poor performances and execution. See I want to say simply if this movie was any better it could have been hailed as a Classic. I was really interested to see what happens next and when it happened I was even more anxious but all those very poor performances and average direction , below average script , really bad characters and by bad i mean they didn't even seem like humans and so much terrible execution makes this really bad.I have used execution so many times because it could have been much greater.To even make it more worse they made few even worse sequels to this crappy faulted movie. One thing to watch this movie for , for its amazing thrill of its concept and the way it controls the story. One Reason to avoid this movie, for its elements of the story , script , characters and performances which butchers its concept very badly. Even though it has four endings the Director's Cut is the best among them as it sticks to the story very well. Now Final Word if you can watch mix-up of brilliant concept being butchered the it's for you.If you can't then please don't watch it , as you will waste your time.
markbyrn-1 As I watched the Butterfly Effect, I wondered if the writers were influenced by an episode of Star Trek Voyager titled, "Year of Hell". The story premise was exactly the same; a man (Ashton Kutcher) is driven by the love of a woman to travel back in time to rectify a mistake but whatever he does results in a new future that is no less nightmarish than before. Overall, I found it to be an semi-interesting yarn but eye-rolling ridiculous as Kutcher keeps going back in time and coming up with idiotic fixes that naturally result in a worse future. His final solution to avoid ever having befriended the love of his life is predictable and flat but it had to end somehow.
bitte_k_i This is American psychological thriller film directed by Eric Bress and Mackye Gruder. This is story is made from the butterfly effect, one of the chaos theory's idea. The protagonist named Evan has sometimes lost the small part of his memory. In the case of losing any part of his memory, he has written diary since he was young. One day, he found out his ability to go back in time when he is reading his diary. His childhood friend, Kayleigh, has misery living with his father. Evan knows this Kayleigh's situation is owing to Evan. He decides to change his destiny to use his time travel skill. He challenges but cannot make it. Every time he go back in time and make different decision, something wrong is happened and somebody is going to be unhappy. He wants to make Kayleigh's life happier with no sacrifice. But he understand this is impossible. Then he goes back to the time when they met at the first time.Skillfully made story is amazing. Particularly, the last scene is moving. I think time traveling is the dream which everybody has wished at least one time. But this film shows us that changing the past is very risky. If I were Evan, I will do the same thing even if how sad I am.