Movie Review: Butterfly Effect

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The other movie that I caught was Butterfly Effect starring Ashton Kutcher. Another movie that plays with the idea of time travelling. But this one is different. The time travel was done via memories. Here is the story outline: Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher), who suffered severe traumas and blacks outs, as a boy and a teenager, frequently, at moments of high stress. While searching for an answer to why he is always blacking out, he discovered that he is able to travel back in time when he reads from his adolescent journals and is able to essentially "relive" and change parts of his past within the black out period that he used to suffer from as a child. But there are consequences as a result of these changes he made whenever he went back in time. His alternate futures vary from frat boy to prisoner to amputee. He realizes that even though his intentions are good, the actions he takes have unintended, and somewhat, undesired consequences. Struggling to ensure that every around him does not suffer from the consequences of his actions as a boy, he fought hard to right the wrongs he had done. A very interesting take on the butterfly effect. The movie is slow in the beginning. But as the pace picks up, it gets interesting. How he became creative to convince people to be on his side in order for him to right the wrongs he has done as a boy. Overall, the movie is watchable. One of the rare movies that Ashton actually does some serious acting rather than his usual goofing around on the big screen. The storyline is good. Some what predictable, yet, surprising at the same time. A good movie to catch if you don't mind the slow build up to the climatic finale.