Perfectly adorable
Good concept, poorly executed.
Disturbing yet enthralling
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
In Timestalkers William Devane plays a professor with degrees in physics and history and a passion for the lore of the old west who gets to see some of his theories actually come true.It all starts out quite innocently enough as he and fellow western buff John Rafsenberger purchase a bunch of items at an auction and Devane gets a photograph with gunslinger Klaus Kinsski showing what he believes is .357 Magnum in his holster. He writes a paper on it and that brings Lauren Hutton in from the future. She's hunting Kinnski down as he's the number 2 time traveling guy from 500 years in the future, Hutton's father being number one.Devane's got a lot of issues on his own and he joins Hutton in on the hunt because whatever Kinsski's got planned it's going to change history in a big way. We do learn of a secret trip that President Grover Cleveland made to the west in 1886 and Kinsski's going to do something there possibly. By the way don't dwell on the obvious.Timestalkers marks the farewell performance of Forrest Tucker who plays a rich western history buff who provides a valuable clue to Kinsski's intentions.The film is a far fetched idea with some presidential history that never really happened. No more far fetched than a Three Mesquiteers western of a couple generations earlier where President Garfield secretly goes west and agrees to help the Mesquiteers save their ranch, but his real assassination gets in the way.Timestalkers is a nice family film and for those who don't like seeing the laws of time and space violated, it's OK if Lauren Hutton does it in a good cause.
View MoreI have been looking for this movie for almost 20 years, since I first viewed the movie & Finally! Here it is. It made such a huge impact on me that I never forgot it or stopped looking. Great actors, action & story plot. Time & time travel has always been a big part of my life & every movie pertaining to time-travel peaks my interest and gives me new ideas and ways of looking at thing & life around me. Does this really exist? Could this really happen? To go back and find out & be the only one who knows Leonardo De Vinci's true last name or to just know him personally would be awesome. Or to experience the old west to sit with the Indian's in peace. Thank you for a wonderful movie & even better actors to go with it.
View MoreThis movie is on constantly on cable. I had the morning off, so I watched it. I have some questions. The evil german guy shot two cops in the professors house... later on the professor and Lauren Hutton don't even mention it. Wouldn't they be prime suspects in a double cop murder? If General Cliff Claven got shot to death by the evil german guy, why doesn't the professor and Lauren Hutton go back in time 5 minutes and warn him? This was another movie, that although it's full of holes and overall a terrible movie, I watched the whole thing. I couldn't... turn... away.
View More"Timestalkers" is without doubt the very best of all time travel films, it`s well acted, and directed, and it is not spoilt by OTT special effects. Bill Devane is great in the lead role, and it`s nice to see Klaus Kinski in a more commercial type role. The basic plot centres around an old trunk and it`s contents picked up at a car boot sale (garage sale in the US), a photo revels in the distance a man with a very modern gun, and so our journey starts, and it`s edge of the seat stuff all the way.... See it if you can. Score: 10/10
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