I liked the movie with Malcolm McDowell and David Warner as a teenager when I saw it. It had charm. It's, perhaps, not aged that well, but it was a well done movie for it's time.
This "re-imagining", which interestingly, begins like a remake until it brings in other elements, is much more complex, more thought provoking, with some uncertainty as to what people's motivations are and what really happened in the past. It's a nice enough spin on the time travel paradox.
There is some bad writing though, some cheats like a photograph that was a little too convenient and too many conversations about "You're not going to shoot me, you don't have it in you" and rescues at just the right moment. Bits written in just to keep the plot moving along, but if you can forgive the rushed writing, it's a fun little yarn about who gets the time machine and what do they do with it.
I liked it perhaps more than I should have. 7.5 stars.
This "re-imagining", which interestingly, begins like a remake until it brings in other elements, is much more complex, more thought provoking, with some uncertainty as to what people's motivations are and what really happened in the past. It's a nice enough spin on the time travel paradox.
There is some bad writing though, some cheats like a photograph that was a little too convenient and too many conversations about "You're not going to shoot me, you don't have it in you" and rescues at just the right moment. Bits written in just to keep the plot moving along, but if you can forgive the rushed writing, it's a fun little yarn about who gets the time machine and what do they do with it.
I liked it perhaps more than I should have. 7.5 stars.