Truly Dreadful Film

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I thought I was going to get a bit of a Rom-Com with this movie so imagine my surprise when the Fantasy bit (that I missed in the synopsis) kicked in! Than goodness for Bill Nighy and his beautiful voice, without it the movie would be incomplete. And the soundtrack was great. Otherwise I guess if you want to see Rachel McAdams dont watch it cause its like shes phoning it in. Domnhall is pretty good because he plays average so well.

When I started watching the movie I expected so much more. The beginning was great and then it all got lost as if Richard Curtis could not decide what the story should be about. Should it be about time travelling? Should it be about relationship between son and father? Should it be about the family? About love or about who knows what? Like scattered pieces of puzzle those questions pop up now and then throughout the movie refusing to fall into places to form a wholesome picture. The main protagonist, Tim, has some potential but then he lacks purpose or direction in his actions, he also does not know what to do with his life or his gift of being able to travel back in time. He does appear as nice and caring though so bloody dull and boneless. Supporting characters seem to be on their own, supporting no one in particular. The main heroine is nothing but pretty face who supposedly reads other people's novels. She lacks any interesting traits or lines to say. She is almost like a piece of furniture in the movie and you cannot help but wonder what Tim has found in her... Perhaps their dullness unites them... There are no great wisdoms or even small ones either. Two hours of time claimed but utter banal, trivial, storyless, directionless movie.

I cannot say that this movie is the better one. Actually, I think is pretty basic, but it makes you feel sad, happy and desperate. Even with a movie who develops a plot full of cliches, the emotions that cause in the viewer are a big point for the movie. They start creating expectatives in the viewer, when I saw it, I was thinking "great, this movie is about time traveling". Sadly, at the end they put this ability in second term. What we can rescue from this movie is the message. They send an incredible moral about life and to make the viewer understand it, they show us how the characters´s life change through the years, happy and sad moments that almost everyone experience.

Loved it. Time well spent. Highly recommended . . . . . . . A must see