Co-writers and co-directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber offer utterly unrationalized science fiction in the time-travel and alternate-universe subdivisions. It concerns a college student (Ashton Kutcher, with scholarly beard) who had suffered from memory blackouts as a child, and who now discovers that by rereading his diaries he can return to the lost moments and rewrite the outcome, emerging from the experience with nothing worse than a bloody nose. But every time he changes one thing, it changes the entire future. This might sound as though it ought to be more interesting than it is. (Or else it might sound exactly as confusing as it is.) The makers' reliance on "shocking" subject matter -- pedophilia and kiddie porn, dog burning, baby bombing, etc. -- bespeaks their doubts about their ability to interest. An image that did not look as if it were viewed through sunglasses might have helped, but not significantly. Amy Smart, Ethan Suplee, Eric Stoltz, Melora Walters. (2004) — Duncan Shepherd
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