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The Time Traveler's Wife
Clare (Rachel McAdams) has been in love with Henry (Eric Bana) her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: because Henry is a cheeky time traveler - cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through the years with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, and never knowing when they will be reunited, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her true love
Starring Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Ron Livingston, Brooklynn Proulx, Arliss Howard, Stephen Tobolowsky
Directed by Robert Schwentke ('Flightplan')
Written by Bruce Joel Rubin (based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger)
Science Fiction, Romance, Drama, Adaptation | 1hr 47mins | Rated (M) | contains violence | Origin: USA | Official Site »
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The problem with time-travel in movies is it’s all too easily manipulated to meet the filmmakers’ ends. In this sappy romantic drama it’s stretched beyond belief. It's not always clear if Eric Bana’s character, Henry knows what the hell is going on when he turns up in another time with no clothes on. In one confusing scene his future wife – or should that be past wife? – can’t understand why he doesn’t recognise her. Neither will the audience in this confusing adaptation that will either leave you drying your eyes or gagging for a bucket.
With Rachel McAdams as Bana’s simpering spouse, Clare, viewers can expect a product gooier than her other old-fashioned tear-jerker, The Notebook. Only this is rife with cliches. Why else do they sneak inside a TV shop to watch the Lotto numbers roll in?
The only way to attempt to enjoy it is to suspend disbelief and get swept along in the love story. But even then you’ll be worried for the young Clare, who at the age of 6, encounters a naked man in the bushes and promptly declares her life-long devotion.
Even the usually reliable Bana struggles with the false dialogue and fake hair; McAdams is so lovestruck you’ll want to lock her in a Tardis and whisk her back in time to before she was delivered the script.
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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The warmth of the actors makes it surprisingly tender, considering the premise that is blatantly absurd. If you allow yourself to think for one moment of the paradoxes, contradictions and logical difficulties involved, you will be lost. The movie supports no objective thought.
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Empire Magazine (UK)
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Competent and well-cast, but it crams too much into the runtime and loses the elegance of the novel.
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Hollywood Reporter
German-born director Robert Schwentke ("Flightplan") keep things moving briskly enough so that the leaps in time mostly obscure the leaps in logic.
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NZ Herald (Jacqueline Smith)
3
The Time Traveller's Wife may not be particularly intelligent but it delivers some loveable characters, who should deliver the warm fuzzies, if not tears.
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Rolling Stone (USA)
I'd watch the vibrant Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in anything, but The Time Traveler's Wife is pushing it.
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Variety (USA)
May not make a lick of sense, but it does make for fairly irresistible nonsense.
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