wtmerrett If I had a choice to give this a zero I would. It is so badly flawed I almost don't know where to start. It appears that someone thought it would be a good idea to have the Grandson of HG Wells direct this nag. He obviously has no idea how to direct. It is as bad a job as when Stephan King directed Maximum Overdrive and did not understand screen direction. Great writer...bad director. Same here. This movie was so disjointed and had so many story ideas running through it that you had to have a road map to find your way around. The original story line was lost along the way as the plot meandered seemingly aimlessly from one inane sequence to the next. So many holes.....and the audience is without shovels.

Eric Stevenson I was interesting in seeing this movie if only because my brother likes it so much. I even went so far as to see it with him and he wanted the volume up and everything else. I had heard pretty bad things about this movie and wasn't expecting something great. After watching the film, my brother basically said that he realized it didn't hold up. That's nostalgia for you. I guess if I read the book version or seen the original movie, I would have liked it. There are definitely good scenes in this movie, but it just comes off as way too silly. It tells the story about this guy who travels back in time to save his girlfriend's life, but she dies anyway.He then comes to accept that he can't save her, but then travels into the future to find out why he can't. Then he accidentally travels much further where people live in tribes and there are these giant noseless hairy people who hunt after them. The worst part is that half of the movie takes place in this time. I wanted to see more of a futuristic setting. It was just silly with how these guys look. Their leader is some white and blue guy who looks nothing like them. This film was just too silly for me to take seriously, but I do like the scenes where the main character accepts his fate. Time travel fiction can do much better. **

allyatherton A poor retelling of the original novel and bookStarring Guy PearceBased on the book by H G WellsScreenplay by David Duncan and John LoganDirected by Simon WellsI was quite excited to catch up with this movie as I am a big fan of the original novel and the original film, but I was less than impressed.I felt deflated watching this. Fair play to them that they have tried to create something different rather than just copying the original movie but it has lost all of the magic and charm completely. The original Time machine kept you glued to the screen, it captured your imagination, this didn't sadly.There's plenty of action and thrills but that didn't make up for the loss of the awe and wonder. And Samantha Mumba? Really? That's just poor casting. She couldn't act her way out of a packet of crisps.6/10

mjdarling1117 The summary of the storyline that is listed at the top of the IMDb page for the 2002 movie, "The Time Machine" states, "Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races."The Eloi are an extraordinarily peaceful people. Their friends and family members disappear, but they don't even try to find out why. The Eloi would never even think of uttering a bad word, never mind warring.Shouldn't the IMDb writers that summarize movie story lines have to actually WATCH the movie before rewriting/summarizing the story lines other writers, who have watched the movies, write...or at least use the same words? The storyline writer watched it, and called the two races the hunters and the hunted, which is accurate.