Review of The Butterfly Effect (2004) by Rash H — 15 Mar 2012
I was almost going to love this film.
But to love this film is to arguably give up what respect I have for not only cinema but philosophy.
Kutcher in his most tolerable role in the history of his life, plays a man trying to toy with time and thus unleashing what the film calls the Butterfly Effect, but which is really just an elementary adaptation of what physics calls the 'entropy theory' (Chaos theory): the idea that all of our actions lead to a series of events and thus one main conclusion. Some of us may realize this isn't so far from existentialism, but this film suggests there is one -final- conclusion, one unchangeable fate, and this is where it errors.
Director Bless and Gruber try so hard to stay in bound with their own logic while also playing with the supernatural, and in this they fail. They lose all bonds with their audience, they lose all sense in their writing and they lose all respect from those who loved the dark, almost gothic premise.
A film with tons of hopes and little desirables, this is one of 2004's biggest dissapointments.
This review of The Butterfly Effect (2004) was written by Rash H on 15 Mar 2012.
The Butterfly Effect has generally received positive reviews.
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