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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.'
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Time Machine
The greatest adventure THROUGH all time!
2002 · 1h 36m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Directed by
Simon Wells
Overview
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
28%
Tomatometer
Rotten
One of those staggeringly well-produced, joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next, hastily, emptily.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
If it's remembered at all, it will be as a time capsule of early-21st-century blockbuster cowardice and redundancy.
Dennis Lim, Village Voice
Rotten
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.
Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
They gave The Time Machine a major overhaul and ended up with a clunker.
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
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