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Cast:
It is the late 1800s. A persistent scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce) finds himself at the doors of depression when his fiancé Emma (Sienna Guillory) is killed. He builds a time machine to try and change the past. He succeeds in creating the Time Machine and goes back to the past, but cannot change it when he wants to. He then travels far into the future, about 800,000 years to be precise when the moon explodes and the earth becomes weird. He meets the breathtaking Mara (Samantha Mumba). Hartedegen discovers then that human beings have evolved into two different races, with one being the predator, hunting the other. Alexander teaches the Eloi (the race that Mara belongs to) to fight back. Does he succeed? Does he return to his time? Review:
The script is laughably bizarre at times and you do wonder at yet another classic being fouled up on the big screen. The end is probably the most confusing and unexplained in any movie for quite some time now. Also, the contradiction that you cannot change the past but can change the future is a
Not a must-see movie, but definitely worth seeing if you want to take a look at potentially one of the greatest actors of the future, Guy Pearce. Final Score: Two out of four stars Sam Walker published on 8th August 2002
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I went for this movie with great expectations. First, it was based on a classic by H.G. Wells. Secondly, it starred the brilliant Guy Pearce. Third, it was directed by H.G. Wells' great grandson. I was mildly disappointed. Had it not had Pearce, the movie would have been lost as one of the many science fiction movies that have crashed, despite heavy budgets and heavier tech wizardry. Pearce will surely own the world someday. He is too good an actor. In this movie too, he is always cool, possessed and reacts very naturally to the fast-changing situations around him. 
Orlando Jones as the
holographic know-it-all is quite humourous. Pearce's friend from the 1800s' Mark Addy, turns in a snappy little performance. Samantha Mumba as Mara is dazzlingly beautiful and sultry. Maybe a potential star of the future. Too early to say yet. Sienna Guillory as Emma is off the screen so fast that we are not able to identify with her at all.
bit hard to digest. Technically the movie is terrific and worth a see for that. At least Simon Wells made good use of the technical wizardry that is available today.
