The Butterfly Effect

Pros: The younger actors (specifically Jesse James), Kutcher, the story line...
Cons: A couple of inconsistencies (if you are paying attention)...

The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have ...

Pros: Ashton Kutcher can act!? Messing with the past, I shall never tire of it.
Cons: Superfluous "special effects", a few implausibilities (as one might have guessed).

I drove through some pretty nasty snow to see The Butterfly Effect, and I'm glad to say that it was a day worth remembering. Remembering. Now there's a mysterious concept. Anytime you make a movie that has anything to do with the ...

Pros: Kutcher, it sets out to do something different...
Cons: ...but it fails rather miserably

A movie that so desperately wants to be deep and philosophical that it is completely willing to give up plausibility and intelligence in the process, The Butterfly Effect is nothing if not completely full of its own self-importance. It's a film ...

Pros: Original story
Cons: Some really disturbing parts

The Butterfly Effect is a new supernatural thriller starring Ashton Kutcher (That 70’s Show) and Amy Smart (Road Trip) and is about a young man who uses personal journals from his troubled past to travel back in time and right some wrongs. The movie’s ...

Pros: Chaos theory is always interesting, fantastic actors, great ending
Cons: The guy behind me

I saw the preview for this movie a few weeks ago, and told my boyfriend not to let me pass this one up. He kept his word, and took me out last night to see it, and although I don't regret seeing the film one bit, I do regret seeing it in public, and ...

Pros: Makes you contemplate your actions and how it affects those around you. The acting.
Cons: Movie starts out slowly, building momentum.

Hubby informed me yesterday we had a date for tonight. I asked him what we were seeing. I told him not to tell me, "A movie." He replied, "A picture." Enough said. The openings moments of this intriguing film made me wish I hadn't come. ...

Pros: the first half, suspenseful through first half, Kutcher and Smart have futures
Cons: limited premise becomes redundant and repetitive, large plot-holes

And the award for best movie of January 2004 goes to "The Butterfly Effect." Hey, it could have been worse; I kind of enjoyed this movie and I wasn't ever expecting to enjoy a January flick. Alas, one can only enjoy a tunnel-vision-plot for so long, ...

Pros: An admirable compelling quality, especially in the Director's Cut, and the DVD highly superb.
Cons: I found some awkwardly mild humor still off-putting.

The Butterfly Effect opens with a dictionary definition of the "Chaos Theory," which explains the title phenomenon. It was first realized by a meteorologist in 1960, and "The Butterfly Effect" states that if a butterfly fluttered it's wings ...

Pros: Extremely dark, very powerful, awesome director's cut
Cons: some plot holes, main character underdeveloped, one obvious cliche

I wrote a review on this movie two days ago, and I deleted it today and completely rewrote it. The problem with my first review is that I stupidly wrote it about the Director’s Cut. I tossed the DVD in the player without even realizing that it was double ...

Pros: Exciting story, thought provoking, bittersweet. not your classic boy meets girl story by any means!
Cons: A few very disturbing scenes, NOT for children.

I thought that the previews of this movie looked great despite the fact that I am not a huge fan Ashton Kutcher. It's hard to picture him playing a serious role without adding some form of stupidity to it. However, The Butterfly Effect was excellent. ...

Pros: Great tension and subject mater.
Cons: Disturbing, ending was a bit Hollywood for me.

For most people, childhood is a time filled mainly with happy memories of carefree playing, a loving family, and counting the days until the next school vacation. Sadly, not everyone has fond memories of their childhood as for some; the years ...

Pros: Ashton Kutcher, unique plot, gripping, chaos theory idea, effective edge-of-your seat psychological thriller
Cons: may be a bit TOO disturbing for some, a little bit unrealistic

Wow...this movie just BLEW me away! The plot was SO disturbing but I think if it was any less so that it wouldn't have turned out to be the intensely satisfying movie that it was. From the beginning you are introduced to a story so captivating that it's ...

Pros: Thoughtful, engrossing, Kutcher is adequate...
Cons: ...though not particularly on par with his co-stars.

The Butterfly Effect could not be more aptly named, as its lead casting of Ashton Kutcher appears to have caused its own ripple effect, with many in the critical community all too eager to take easy potshots at the perennial clown's stab at a ...

Pros: I'll just leave this space otherwise blank to symbolize this film's utter stupidity
Cons: The fact I mention minor points of entertainment might influence masochists to see it

Chaos theory is bunk, but it is entertaining. For some mysterious reason it has serious proponents, just as for some mysterious reason this misbegotten waste of digital film space seems to have followers. I must admit Butterfly Effect was entertaining, ...

Pros: Some fantastic acting, suspenseful scenes, universal theme of actions and consequences.
Cons: Some very poor acting, some scenes very violent and disturbing.

How many of us have wished that we could go back in time and undo events that have tainted our lives or the lives of those we love? Evan (Ashton Kutcher) discovers his inherited ability to do so in The Butterfly Effect, and must cope with the ...