Very well executed

Just perfect...

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

I have never read The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, so I cannot compare the original story to this film.However I can compared this update to the original George Pal Production with Rod Taylor as H.G. Wells.And frankly I found that this update literally left nothing to the imagination. I found it cold, and shallow.Simon Wells Directed, but Guy Pearce didn't sell his character of H.G. Wells to me. My imagination was not stirred at all whilst watching this movie, yet I've seen the original George Pal /Rod Taylor version several times, and each time, im hooked, my imagination is fired.George Pal's 1960 original, with a superb music score by Russell Garcia, added to the atmosphere created in the 1960 original. You had a real sense of Time Travel, and future happenings with the George Pal version.I give this update attempt 1 for awful.

I was interesting in seeing this movie if only because my brother likes it so much. I even went so far as to see it with him and he wanted the volume up and everything else. I had heard pretty bad things about this movie and wasn't expecting something great. After watching the film, my brother basically said that he realized it didn't hold up. That's nostalgia for you. I guess if I read the book version or seen the original movie, I would have liked it. There are definitely good scenes in this movie, but it just comes off as way too silly. It tells the story about this guy who travels back in time to save his girlfriend's life, but she dies anyway.He then comes to accept that he can't save her, but then travels into the future to find out why he can't. Then he accidentally travels much further where people live in tribes and there are these giant noseless hairy people who hunt after them. The worst part is that half of the movie takes place in this time. I wanted to see more of a futuristic setting. It was just silly with how these guys look. Their leader is some white and blue guy who looks nothing like them. This film was just too silly for me to take seriously, but I do like the scenes where the main character accepts his fate. Time travel fiction can do much better. **

Short and not so sweet, here were go. I love everything science fiction/fact. I've always been curious about time, time travel and paradoxes, so I thought I'd give this movie a watch. I have nothing to compare this film to because I haven't seen the original, but this particular film went from great, to somewhat boring. I enjoyed the atmosphere throughout the first quarter to half of the movie, and then it went very far-fetched and uninteresting (to me). I wish this film stuck to the 1800's - 2000's era because that's where the interesting story-line was. I wanted to see more time traveling as well, because the scenery changes throughout the years were very intriguing and borderline eye-candy to a sci-fi fan. The characters were pretty average and difficult to grasp onto. Visuals were nice. Plot wasn't overly enjoyable. It's worth a watch once, but I don't think I'd watch it again. So many other movies to watch. Mediocre. 5/10

The summary of the storyline that is listed at the top of the IMDb page for the 2002 movie, "The Time Machine" states, "Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races."The Eloi are an extraordinarily peaceful people. Their friends and family members disappear, but they don't even try to find out why. The Eloi would never even think of uttering a bad word, never mind warring.Shouldn't the IMDb writers that summarize movie story lines have to actually WATCH the movie before rewriting/summarizing the story lines other writers, who have watched the movies, write...or at least use the same words? The storyline writer watched it, and called the two races the hunters and the hunted, which is accurate.