obviously the story is good because it's based on michael crichton's amazing book. could have been a better movie though with better acting.

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King Leonidas, Paul Walker and 80 million dollars star in Timeline. Very PG-13, it seemed especially bad after watching King Arthur. It's a cheesy kids movie, I prefer National Treasure.

The film is lazily created and assembled like a made-for-tv movie, true to the mould of a SciFi original. It is poorly shot and the acting is unconvincing to say the least. The whole mess is a terribly disappointing waste of opportunity.

It's a shame that Michael Chrichton's name is attached to this movie. He wrote such a good book and they filled the movie with such awful actors (especially Paul Walker). The good performances were only good by comparison and the story was almost a... (read more) It's a shame that Michael Chrichton's name is attached to this movie. He wrote such a good book and they filled the movie with such awful actors (especially Paul Walker). The good performances were only good by comparison and the story was almost as hard to follow as Chrichton's (and explained so poorly unlike Chrichton's).

An accidental comedy trapped in sci-fi/action garb, like those actors swathed in their medieval tunics, stumbling and lurching along.

Plays out like a 1950s B-movie with a fat special-effects budget.

Just once I'd like to see a time-travel movie inspired by true curiosity about the past, instead of by a desire to use it as a setting for action scenes.