Time After Time

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Harry R Sep 11, 2018 Despite a great cast and a wonderfully fun plot, the movie is horribly written with shockingly bad dialogue and forced romance that never quite makes the landing. The film itself has no real logic or sense to its time travel and everything feels like a first attempt/draft rather than a fully realized vision. See more

Leia G Mar 21, 2018 Underrated movie about H.G. Wells and his trip to 1979 America. Really well done but very dated. David Warner is exceptional. McDowell was well cast as a geeky but lost Wells. Good but not great. See more

Abraham S Sep 27, 2017 The idea for Time After Time was amazing, and the first act of setup was brilliant. Sure there were some logical things that didn’t exactly make sense when Wells is explaining the time machine, but in the long run I didn’t care because it all had a purpose in the plot (even if it was illogical.) The way that the story starts out so quickly and has such a clear motivation for the main characters, it clicked into place and I was having a great time. It was humorous watching as this man out of his own time learned how the modern world worked and how to get what he needed to track down Jack. I thought Malcolm McDowell was extremely well-cast as the distinguished H.G. Wells. He had a real innocence to his portrayal that fit a man from a more polite time. David Warner was also delightful as his antagonist. The way that he seeks to blend in instead of remaining true to his past self gave a nice personality contrast between the two characters without saying a word. And then there was Mary Steenburgen. To say she was miscast is only the start of the problems. She is doing some odd things with her performance to the point that I thought she was drunk or high for part of the film. What started out as this exciting chase through time, with a metaphorical chess match going on between the main characters, devolved into an odd romance. All that potential it started with was squandered because they decided to turn it into Somewhere in Time. Then it got really strange, and they made pointless choices. McDowell and Steenburgen started acting like their hands were tied by the constraints of time when they have access to a time machine! Finally the end had some surprise and tension which I was missing. It’s just that long middle section of the film that hurts Time After Time and keeps it from being a great film. See more

Rey L Sep 23, 2017 Found this film interesting with H.G. Wells constructing a time machine, which is used by Jack the Ripper to move to the year 1979 to continue his killing spree after his identity is discovered in his own time. See more

Draco S Sep 5, 2017 This is a fun, sweet, lighthearted time travel romance with well developed characters & fun performances from the leads. Had fun watching this. See more

Draco G Aug 25, 2017 Time After Time has weaker acting and direction plus the ending was not my favorite. However, this is still a very good sci-fi romance film with three superbly developed characters, a lovely romance that worked so well and a really well crafted, hugely entertaining story. It is so charming both in its wonderfully old-fashioned score and in dialogue that I've had a great time watching it. See more

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