Testing his theories with a time machine of his own invention, scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
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December 29, 2010
A good movie based on H.G. Wells' classic novel.March 12, 2002
If it's remembered at all, it will be as a time capsule of early-21st-century blockbuster cowardice and redundancy.March 09, 2002
They gave The Time Machine a major overhaul and ended up with a clunker.November 06, 2002
If H.G. Wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin's reworked version, what would he say? 'It looks good, Sonny, but you missed the point.'March 09, 2002
In the new film, it's personal tragedy that provokes the journey, not social upheaval or even scientific curiosity -- which, predictably, makes for a story that's at once more familiar and less interesting.January 09, 2007
This remake of the 1960 sci-fi feature (based on Wells famous novel) fails to take advantage of the new technology to make the tale more effective.April 06, 2006
Dishwater: 10, Wells: 0July 02, 2008
The Time Machine is harmless, if ineffectual fun.April 29, 2009
A loud annoying movie with poor directing and plot holes galore...March 19, 2003
If I had a time machine that could take me back only four hours, I'd take my nine dollars, find the original movie at a video store, and spend the rest on an In N'Out Burger.July 20, 2002
One of those staggeringly well-produced, joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next, hastily, emptily.March 08, 2002
Amazingly stilted before accelerating into its exciting finish.