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I haven't been watching a lot of movies lately, new or old, but the commercial for this one during the Super Bowl caught my eye. I'm a sucker for time travel movies, etc.
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A time-traveling pilot teams up with his younger self and his late father to come to terms with his past while saving the future.
It stars Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo and Jennfier Garner. It releases on Netflix March 11.
It's okay. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would --- though admittedly I went in with low expectations. The movie's chief flaw is best understood by looking at the writing credits:
Written by
Jonathan Tropper
T.S. Nowlin
Jennifer Flackett
Mark Levin
It is pretty obvious this movie had four different screenwriters because it feels like four different movies cut together, some of which are really, really good, and some of which are not. The movie's best parts are not actually the high-octane action scenes. Those are all kinda been-there / done-that. You have seen this movie's action sequences in 50 other movies.
But when the movie slows down and concentrates on the characters and lets them connect, it is exceptionally good. There is a scene about halfway through the movie between the Ryan Reynolds character and Jennifer Garner that makes your eyes a little misty. A lesser writer would have played this scene for laughs or typical Reynolds nyuk-nyuk banter, but instead movie allows the characters to be real and even decent to one another.
Is this a great movie? Nope. But it's worth a watch. It's a decent popcorn flick.
It's okay. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would --- though admittedly I went in with low expectations. The movie's chief flaw is best understood by looking at the writing credits:
Written by
Jonathan Tropper
T.S. Nowlin
Jennifer Flackett
Mark Levin
It is pretty obvious this movie had four different screenwriters because it feels like four different movies cut together, some of which are really, really good, and some of which are not. The movie's best parts are not actually the high-octane action scenes. Those are all kinda been-there / done-that. You have seen this movie's action sequences in 50 other movies.
But when the movie slows down and concentrates on the characters and lets them connect, it is exceptionally good. There is a scene about halfway through the movie between the Ryan Reynolds character and Jennifer Garner that makes your eyes a little misty. A lesser writer would have played this scene for laughs or typical Reynolds nyuk-nyuk banter, but instead movie allows the characters to be real and even decent to one another.
Is this a great movie? Nope. But it's worth a watch. It's a decent popcorn flick.
I agree. It's a pleasant movie and a good Netflix watch.
I agree about that particular scene...it was done with a nice light touch.
The banter between the older Ryan Reynolds and the younger Ryan Reynolds was also fun.
We had a lot of good laughs watching this one. My son made me skip back to see the dad's watch more closely. He recognized it - I don't get it. A watch is a watch, but he gets geeked out over them. Time travel movies have always been a favorite.
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