The Butterfly Effect. I actually liked it. I thought it had some good points on life yet it was badly edited and acted. However, the Directors Edition which has Ashton Kutcher on his knees got me a little excited. It was a small step above a cheap thriller teenage movie but it was based on some cool ideas like Chaos Theory.
Las Vegas Weekly: There are so many things wrong with The Butterfly Effect that
it's hard to know where to start. Take the title, for instance: It refers to the idea—born out of chaos theory—that even the smallest changes can have large consequences down the road. The standard example is of a butterfly flapping its wings in New Mexico and causing a hurricane in China. Science fiction writers often apply the idea to time travel, positing that changing even a small element of the past can have drastic ramifications on the present. An interesting concept, right? In the movie, writer-directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber have their main character, Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher), traveling back in time to various moments in his childhood and changing events which then drastically alter the future.
IMDB: It's a great premise, and the movie flows in a really interesting way. If you can slog through the setup (50 relentlessly disturbing minutes), the price of admission is definitely worth it. When Kutcher's character starts realizing the power he wields in making changes to the past, the film becomes an entertaining, though still grim, to be sure, romp into the Twilight Zone. The Butterfly Effect is infused with wry, dark humor, mostly intentional, and the story itself is thought-provoking, both for what it does address and what it doesn't (for instance, wouldn't a true "butterfly effect" affect more than the lives of these few characters? Would the world be qualitatively different?).
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