The Time Machine (2002) Critic Reviews

Machine makes its look-to-the-future-not-the-past message as clear as a Grammy acceptance speech, but as an exploration of regret and the elusive quality of time, it falls well short of "Memento," another film starring a sad-eyed Pearce.Read the full review

Amazingly stilted before accelerating into its exciting finish.Read the full review

The best thing about the new film of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine is the machine.Read the full review

Drab as it is, the movie is not impossible to endure -- in part because the concept has a timeless appeal.Read the full review

There's something wrong with a time-travel movie that allows an audience's interest to drift so that we have time to worry over where he's parked, and whether he remembered to take his key.Read the full review

If Welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two, he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way.Read the full review

Weirdly disjointed and uncertain as to tone.Read the full review

The film has no spirit of inquiry -- no spirit at all, really.Read the full review

Deliberately quaint and old-fashioned, a once-over-slightly exercise in nostalgic wonder directed by the British-born great-grandson of H.G. Wells, who treats the spirit of his ancestor's novel with literal-minded fealty.Read the full review