The Time Traveller’s Wife (2009)
I think it was British actress Maggie Smith that called method acting emotional masturbation, well that is essentially what this film is. The plot centres round creating as many cheap emotional payoffs as possible thanks to the time travelling husband, by doing this it ends up being fairly predictable and uninteresting. Time travel can be a vast and complex subject but is relegated to being an unexplored plot device in this instance.
There is a fairly decent cast and the direction is fine but other than that I do not think that this film has a huge amount going for it. I am sure this type of movie has it's fans but for a lot of people it will be seen as a middle of the road movie of the type that you have probably seen 5 or 6 times before. Twelve Monkeys does this story so much better and more thought provokingly.
3/5
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