Sorry, this movie sucks

Highly Overrated But Still Good

good back-story, and good acting

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

I was 8 when this movie came out. It was one of my favorites as a kid, and still a movie I will sit down and watch from time to time. Jesse Bradford played a solid part along with his co-star Paula Garces. Many people protest the issue of her having a Hispanic accent early on in the film then diminishing as it progressed. It could be her toying with Bradford and the self-absorbed DJ Ditto early on, or it could simply be bad acting... I digress.The special effects were well done and the soundtrack was appealing with music from Blink 182, Smash Mouth, and other popular bands (especially for the time period it was made). Overall a solid, feel-good, family movie that is sure to entertain.

Handsome bicycling student Jesse Bradford (as Zak Gibbs) accidentally acquires an unusual watch. No, it doesn't signal the arrival of "Superman", bring back "The Legion of Super-Heroes", or even explain why Mr. Bradford is still in high school. But, the watch does have the power to speed up the molecules of Bradford's body, making the world around him seem to stand still. It's called "Hypertime", after a concept discovered by Bradford's dad, Robin Thomas (after DC Comics' Mark Waid).With awesome power comes awesome responsibility...The watch impresses gorgeous exchange student Paula Garcés (as Francesca), who also seems to have come unstuck in high school. Naturally, Bradford wants to hook up with Ms. Garcés. Meanwhile, funny French Stewart (as Earl Dopler), mad Michael Biehn (as Henry Gates), and other enemy agents want to wrest the watch from Bradford's wrist, putting Garcés and he in grave danger. "Clockstoppers" is an obviously limited-in-appeal effort from "Star Trek" actor/director Jonathan Frakes.***** Clockstoppers (3/17/02) Jonathan Frakes ~ Jesse Bradford, Paula Garces, French Stewart, Michael Biehn

Once again we see that a story might not sparkle in itself, but when the same story are combined with wild effects it can make a decent hour or two of escapism. As with Clockstoppers. The problem is that the idea behind the "time-travel-like" ideology that bears the movie is to far-fetched for even the most fanatical phantasm-believer to swallow. Please give us a little more credit next time. Don't expect us to just accept stupid lines and ideas anymore. Be fantastic with a realistic viewpoint. Now I will not be the one to say that I could have done it better. Because I couldn't. But if you had asked someone before you made it, to sift away the unbelievable stuff, the movie would have been better off...

I am a sucker for science fiction movies. One of my favorites (along with about a billion others) is 'Back To The Future.' As soon as I started watching 'Clockstoppers' I felt that it had a 'Back To The Future' feel to it. Watching the extras on the DVD, those in the movie thought so too. However there is no comparison. This movie uses a group of B-grade actors and a great, novel concept of certain persons becoming able to greatly speed up their time, rendering the world and people around comparatively in extremely slow motion. The problem starts right after that great concept is introduced, as the writer and director were not able to develop any substantial story line to go along with it. The result is a cute, mostly fun little movie that uses the hyper time mode for silly things, and when it is all over we realize the hyper time concept was the entire movie, with a silly script strapped on to make it look like a movie. I was highly entertained by the hyper time concept, I was mostly bored with the story surrounding it.SPOILERS -- We get the first glimpse that something is askew when a highly disguised Dr Doppler (great name!) is trying to get quickly onto a plane for Central America, only to get invisibly jerked off the tarmac platform right before boarding. Later we figure out that it was the two bad guys operating in hyper time, moving so fast they couldn't be seen. A professor had invented the circuitry, disguised as a watch, the government was realizing the hazard of this getting into enemy hands and not wanting to terminate the project, the bad guys need Dr Doppler to finish the design, because as it stood everyone operating in hyper time ages very rapidly, which defeats part of the purpose. The professor's son accidently gets the watch, figures out how to use it, helps his friend win a DJ contest, foils a bike theft, gets back at an over-eager meter maid, and various silly uses for such a fabulous technology. In the end, of course, the bad guys are foiled, and the professor's son drives away in his new Mustang, and goes into hyper time as the cops chase him. he had kept one of the watches!