Review of Timeline (2006) by Charles P — 05 Oct 2010

Entertaining and watchable for the most part, but pretty unoriginal in terms of time traveling films.

This review of Timeline (2006) was written by Charles P on 05 Oct 2010.

Timeline has generally received mixed reviews.

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