Good start, but then it gets ruined

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Not that I've seen anywhere near all of his films, but "The Time Traveller" does beat "Blind Date" or "Hired To Kill", and I'll venture a guess and say that it beats "Ninja Academy" or "The Naked Truth" as well. Either by artistic choice or by budgetary constraints (probably a mixture of both), Mastorakis makes a very low-key, leisurely-paced, uneventful, elliptical sci-fi film, with the use of special effects limited to one or two scenes. It's the ideas that even define this as a sci-fi film, and Mastorakis has some outrageous ideas indeed! The more religious viewers will probably be offended, but others may even admire Mastorakis' audacity here. And as a bonus, we get some splendid, and rare, views of Mykonos in the winter. Finally, after recently having started watching "Doctor Who", I had to laugh at the line "NOBODY has two hearts"! **1/2 out of 4.

I rated this one a little high because of the nice scenery. At least this movie wasn't filmed on a set with painted backgrounds.I've always enjoyed films involving time travel. Some time travel flicks are exciting. A few, like BACK TO THE FUTURE (all three) border on being comical. So eventually, somebody had to make a time travel flick that is boring, and here it is, THE NEXT ONE.This movie has a list of cinematic giants. But in this movie, the giants take a fall.There are a few special effects, like the electrical storm.But this movie, at its high points, drags. Then, it's downhill.This movie sits in my collection, waiting to be used as a door stop. A real disappointment.

Widowed Andrea and her young son live on a remote Greek Island. One day, walking on the beach, they come across a strange man washed up, who cannot remember anything. Who is he, where did he come from, and why is he here ?This is an odd movie, a quirky Christ allegory with some time travelling thrown in. I guess it's not very good - it looks cheap, it lacks passion, it has too many travelogue shots to pad its running time and it doesn't really make any sense. Despite all that, I really like it, for several reasons. It was shot in the south-eastern Greek island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea, and the location is original and incredibly beautiful. The cast give strange stilted but hypnotic performances; Dullea is brilliantly iconic, the perfect actor to play a messianic failure, Barbeau is achingly melancholy, Licht (the scary kid from Joe Dante's segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie) is goofy fun and Hobbs is great as the drunken idealistic doctor. Hobbs has impressive cult-movie credentials; check him out in The Andromeda Strain, Sleeper, Wizards, John Carpenter's Elvis TV-movie and The Man With Two Brains. Mastorakis may be a bit of a hack, but the movie keeps coming up with offbeat and interesting ideas and shots, like the moment when Dullea walks into a library and hears the books talking to him in his head. There's also a nice mellow score by the underrated Stanley Myers (Nicolas Roeg's composer of choice). Mastorakis is an unusual, marginal filmmaker, but he made some curios, notably the techno-mystery Blind Date and survival thriller The Zero Boys. I guess I'm maybe overrating this movie a little but it's something different and that always counts for a lot in my book. In her enjoyable autobiography, There Are Worse Things I Could Do, Barbeau doesn't even mention it despite making it at the height of her fame, so I guess she slept through it, but it's really rather good. The Greek title is O Taxidiotis Tou Hronou / The Traveller In Time.

You've had the AntiChrist in films, now it's raining Christs in this ridiculous picture. Like the AntiChrist, this Christ arrives with a helpful number for identification to avoid confusion with any other Christ working as a barman somewhere. Perhaps 'The Next One 2001' will come with a useful barcode or Dot.com address. Since his last visit resulted in crucifixion, Christ decides to play it safe and call himself 'Glenn' and behaves enigmatically. Single mom Andrea finds him washed up on her beach and takes him home presumably because she may find him useful at parties. Turning water into wine and feeding thousands from one loaf definitely saves on grocery bills, but she's not to know that as 'Glenn' is giving nothing away. He leaves speaking in tongues to his disciples who seem in short supply this time around. What is his mysterious mission and will Andrea's son be able to relate to this icon now he's a surfer dude? Does he prefer a heavier or lighter board? At the end of the film another Christ washes up on the beach leaving us with the uncomfortable impression that the son of the almighty might be more of a hazard than driving on Greek roads. A short sighted elderly person might trip over whatever this one's called. Probably Glenda.