So much love here for this!


... but why? I'm honestly asking, not to provoke fans of any of the involved.
I was actually very excited when I read the plot and saw the cast, and had some hope that this would perhaps be somewhat in the line of the excellent Frequency with Jim Chaviezel. But I felt so, so let down by almost everyone involved here, and mostly everything in the movie besides Anderson and Sewell (whom both did a pretty fine job actually), and the main concept.
Personally, I thought it was way, way over the top cheesily produced, roughly edited, very wooden, Shakespeareian acting (again with the exceptions of Anderson and Sewell, very, very disappointed in Haley). But much of this most come from the director whom actually instructed such a great cast of actors to act like one-dimensional characters that could not portray a single emotion without some slo-mo photo, or melancholic, symphonic crescendo hammering in my face to "feel" it instantly.
I saw somebody on this board asked why not SyFy made movies like this? Well, I for one thought it had very much of the same b-quality feel as just that.
Hugely disappointed.

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away."

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I was disappointed, too. Anyone who's seen many time travel movies won't find anything new or interesting here.

The thing that bamboozled me was Erol's assumption that if his father had returned, the rest of their lives would be idyllic. That wouldn't necessarily be so.

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> Anyone who's seen many time travel movies won't find anything new or interesting here.

That's cause it isn't a time travel movie. It's story about loss. The time travel part is just background.

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Good point!

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