Tuesday, January 03, 2006

The Butterfly Effect

What if you found a way to live through the consequences of all your significant what ifs?

An interesting premise, competently realised, with just a few of the inevitable logical snarl-ups. The 'Butterfly Effect' should properly refer to substantial, chaotic changes resulting from fairly unprepossessing starting conditions. Yet here the various turning points are both dramatic and singular and their consequences constrained and largely predictable. Not all that happens in each 'replay' is strictly unavoidable in plot terms which results in creeping dissatisfaction, and Ashton Kutcher is just a bit too bland throughout.

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