- Format: NTSC
- Studio: Alliance Films
- Release Date: Jun 28 2005
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00024W1D8
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #26,610 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Despite box-office dominance during its opening weekend, The Butterfly Effect is better suited to guilty-pleasure viewing at home. When writer-directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber (who penned Final Destination 2) aren't breaking their own haphazard rules of logic, they're filling this sordid thriller with enough unpleasantness to make eternal damnation seem like an attractive alternative. In a role-reversal from his That '70s Show persona, Ashton Kutcher plays a college-age psychology student who discovers, by re-reading his childhood journals, that he can revisit his past and alter traumatic events, hoping to improve their previously unfortunate outcomes. Instead, this foolhardy experiment in chaos theory (the titular "butterfly effect," popularized by Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park) results in a variety of nightmarish permutations, each having dire consequences for him and/or his friends. This intriguing premise is explored with a few interesting twists and turns, but with subplots involving child pornography, animal cruelty, and profanely violent children, it's a stretch to call it entertainment. --Jeff Shannon
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A young man struggling to get over disturbing memories from his childhood discovers that he is able to travel back in time and alter events in his past. However every change he makes transforms his life and that of those around him often to unexpected and disastrous consequences. Format Size: Widescreen. Runtime: 114 mins. Language: English. Region code: Region 1 (United States Canada Bermuda U.S. territories). Discs: 1. Genre: Mystery. Release Year: 2004.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not your average movie...,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Butterfly Effect (DVD)
I was literally told "don't rent it" but I am not at all disappointed. I actually thought it was a very different kind of movie. I normally don't pick movies like this but I was kept in my seat even though it was a little longer than most movies. Unless you like to overanalize things and get offended by movies that are meant to be ficitonal you will probably like this flick, I did! Just remember, it's a movie and enjoy it for what it is.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A butterfly flaps its wings....,
By Ms. H. Sinton "dragondrums" (Ingleby Barwick. U.K.) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Butterfly Effect (DVD)
Ashton Kutcher stars as Evan Treborn, a young man who throughout his childhood was plagued with 'blackouts'. No cause for these blank spots in his life was ever found in spite of extensive tests. His father suffered a similar problem and was institutionalised, Evan is afraid this will be his fate too. To try and make sense of what was going on he was encouraged to keep a daily journal. Although Evan had no memory of what happened during these episodes it was obvious from the behaviour of those around him that some horrific and traumatising events had happened.
When his mother decides to move the family to a different town the blackouts stop. Evan grows up and moves away to university. This is where the film takes a twist. Evan finds that reading his journals propels him into the past, to the events that scarred him and those he cared for, particularly his childhood sweetheart, Kayleigh. He realises that he can control this and even change the events. But like the saying 'when a butterfly flaps its wings a hurricane is felt on the other side of the world', Evan finds that for everything he changes, there is a knock on effect and it isn't necessarily good. This is a dark and at times very disturbing film. The situations Evan faces are, at times, nightmarish. Ashton Kutcher, better known for lightweight comedic roles, shows he is capable of taking on more serious roles. His performance as the troubled young man is outstanding. The end, when it comes, is quite shocking yet somehow fitting. This is not a comfortable film to watch but is well worth seeing if you want something a little different.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Most Original Film of 2005,
By Mac Trager "boywondering" (Syracuse, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Butterfly Effect (DVD)
Great acting, great story, and totally unpredictable. I can't believe it when people say things like 'the writers must've seen Donnie Darko and ripped it off" when the script was written and passed around Hollywood YEARS BEFORE Donnie Darko came out. There's so much garbage out there that I found this to be utterly refreshing from the watered down, uber predictable Hollywood fare that's been flooding our theaters. Watch the Director's Cut if you can stomach the darkness!!!
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