gsfsu The special effects are understandably better than the original but the rest of the movie is almost a pure waste of time. Even Sci-Fi movies need good acting.

Lucas This is a showy and entertaining story about an idea everyone has dreamed of: having power over time.The art direction is striking, from the intricate Victorian machinery to the balloon-like homes of the Eloi. Pearce's performance seems overwhelmed by all that is going on around him, but Orlando Jones is delightful as a virtual repository of all human knowledge, pop singer Samantha Mumba has a strong, sweet presence as the Eloi teacher who befriends Alexander, and Jeremy Irons is shiver- evil as the creature who prizes his own survival above everything.

antivirtel I was thought, that is is a typical time-traveling Sci-fi until the first time travel, but from the second an on, it was a great one. The whole film is about the basic question: "What would have been if ...?" ... I could save my love? or ... I could change the past? - that's why I was just gave 8 stars, I think is is too mainstream, it should have shown us something brand new.The story by the way is very good, but I was thinking, that there were some contradictions with the simple logic, so it seemed to be unpredictable. I had no feelings like that, while watching all episodes of Star Trek.

weejockxxx Well, that was a waste of time. Having finally got to see the Guy Pearce version of The Time Machine I can honestly say I wish I hadn't bothered. The Rod Taylor original didn't follow the book totally but this one just seemed to throw the book in the bin. Instead of a man tired of the inevitability of war we have a 'hero' who is obsessed by his failure to save his girlfriend from dying. Having travelled into the past several times to try and save her he now decides to travel to the future where he finds the beautiful Eloi menaced by the dreadful Morlocks and that's where the similarities end. For a film that was made 42 years after its illustrious predecessor, it seems even less scientifically accurate. If the Moon had broken up lie was shown in the book, it would have exceeded Roche's limit and most probably hit the Earth with catastrophic effects. The Morloks were shown to be mindless beasts ruled by a man who wouldn't have been out of place in a Die Hard movie. Jeremy Irons should have been ashamed to appear in this film. Just how was the Uber Morlock supposed to have come into being? I won't even dwell upon the overt racism in this film but just suppose they had done it the other way? Put all that together with Pearce's totally characterless performance and this film is nothing more than a sombre mess. The only saving grace was Samantha Mumba who at least tried to inject some humanity into her role.