About Time (2013)
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
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Wonderful character development!
Fantastic!
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
I thought I was going to get a bit of a Rom-Com with this movie so imagine my surprise when the Fantasy bit (that I missed in the synopsis) kicked in! Than goodness for Bill Nighy and his beautiful voice, without it the movie would be incomplete. And the soundtrack was great. Otherwise I guess if you want to see Rachel McAdams dont watch it cause its like shes phoning it in. Domnhall is pretty good because he plays average so well.
I watched this movie on HBO and had never heard of it. Wow what a great movie. The message throughout it was so poignant. Live your life like every day is your last! This movie hit home so much with me because I lost my father when I was only 6 years old and never really knew him. I'm 40 now with an 11 year old son of my own. But what made the movie so great is the writing, acting and just about everything else. I love Rachel McAdams and she delivers another Notebook like performance. The rest of the cast was brilliant. Domhnall Gleeson meshed so well with Rachel McAdams. But again the underlying message about living each day as if it's your last is so well done this movie is one of those movies I always watch when I come across it.
When I started watching the movie I expected so much more. The beginning was great and then it all got lost as if Richard Curtis could not decide what the story should be about. Should it be about time travelling? Should it be about relationship between son and father? Should it be about the family? About love or about who knows what? Like scattered pieces of puzzle those questions pop up now and then throughout the movie refusing to fall into places to form a wholesome picture. The main protagonist, Tim, has some potential but then he lacks purpose or direction in his actions, he also does not know what to do with his life or his gift of being able to travel back in time. He does appear as nice and caring though so bloody dull and boneless. Supporting characters seem to be on their own, supporting no one in particular. The main heroine is nothing but pretty face who supposedly reads other people's novels. She lacks any interesting traits or lines to say. She is almost like a piece of furniture in the movie and you cannot help but wonder what Tim has found in her... Perhaps their dullness unites them... There are no great wisdoms or even small ones either. Two hours of time claimed but utter banal, trivial, storyless, directionless movie.
I cannot say that this movie is the better one. Actually, I think is pretty basic, but it makes you feel sad, happy and desperate. Even with a movie who develops a plot full of cliches, the emotions that cause in the viewer are a big point for the movie. They start creating expectatives in the viewer, when I saw it, I was thinking "great, this movie is about time traveling". Sadly, at the end they put this ability in second term. What we can rescue from this movie is the message. They send an incredible moral about life and to make the viewer understand it, they show us how the characters´s life change through the years, happy and sad moments that almost everyone experience.