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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: ... the movie's climax is so under-explained and conveniently resolved that it leaves you feeling as if you've missed a few hundred millennia. Read more
Jay Carr, Boston Globe: The truth is that Wells wasn't that penetrating a writer when it came to probing character or the human heart. His speculations and gimmicks were what propelled his books. The film, given the chance to deepen its source, instead falls back on its gadgets. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The worst thing about this very bad movie is the opportunity squandered ... Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The Time Machine isn't so much an adaptation of H.G. Wells' seminal novel as it is an appropriation. The film borrows liberally from the book, but doesn't treat it with much respect or affection or even understanding. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: ... unlike the shiny machine at its center, its timing is off, and it never quite soars. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The movie obviously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as Jules Verne's '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' and the George Pal version of H.G. Wells' 'The Time Machine.' But its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: One of those staggeringly well-produced, joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next, hastily, emptily. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: This uninviting and pallid version, starring Guy Pearce, is intent on grinding all the sharp edges off the original story, in effect making the movie childproof, so no one can get hurt touching it. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Seems more like the next Star Trek movie, with Patrick Stewart doing the time warp. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: If Welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two, he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: The far future may be awesome to consider, but from period detail to matters of the heart, this film is most transporting when it stays put in the past. Read more
Paul Tatara, CNN.com: ... surprisingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between epochs. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Bears resemblance to, and shares the weaknesses of, too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The urgency is gone, replaced by much high-toned silliness, especially when Jeremy Irons shows up. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Watchable if never exciting, competent yet hardly exceptional, the picture is content to assume its innocuous position in the cinematic landscape. Read more
Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly: 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. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Time Machine is stupid -- too stupid for the impressive special effects or the competently directed action sequences to wash away the bitter taste. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The Time Machine is a witless recycling of the H.G. Wells story from 1895, with the absurdity intact but the wonderment missing. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: ... an agreeable time-wasting device -- but George Pal's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: ... there's something wrong with a time-travel movie that allows an audience's interest to drift so that we have time to worry over where he's parked, and whether he remembered to take his key. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: 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.' Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Midway through the movie, just when it seems that it might amount to something interesting, we're suddenly transported to the set of a very bad remake of Planet Of The Apes. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Simon Wells, whose other films include the animated The Prince of Egypt and Balto, manages to gut all the gee-whiz from the practically foolproof time-travel genre -- despite being H.G.'s real-life great-grandson. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: If it's remembered at all, it will be as a time capsule of early-21st-century blockbuster cowardice and redundancy. Read more