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After watching this movie I went to the trivia section expecting to see something to the effect of: The Morlocks were intentionally made to look distractingly cheesy in homage to the ground breaking but now lame-looking 1960 version. It wasn't there. Go figure.

Ah, if only I had a time machine I could have fast-forwarded to the end of this abysmal nightmare. Skip this...even on video it's a terrible waste of time.

I couldn't believe my eyes and ears. Was I really watching the very worst film ever made? Think so. Scene after scene falls flat. Miscasting from top to bottom. A director who appears to have never WATCHED a film, let alone directed before. A screenwriter who seems to have consulted with no one over age 11. Worse than last year's PLANET OF THE APES. Much worse than BATTLEFIELD EARTH (Is that possible?). Better stop here -- already wasted two hours watching the film. In summary -- a complete disgrace.

I have never read The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, so I cannot compare the original story to this film. However I can compared this update to the original George Pal Production with Rod Taylor as H.G. Wells. And frankly I found that this update literally left nothing to the imagination. I found it cold, and shallow. Simon Wells Directed, but Guy Pearce didn't sell his character of H.G. Wells to me. My imagination was not stirred at all whilst watching this movie, yet I've seen the original George Pal /Rod Taylor version several times, and each time, im hooked, my imagination is fired. George Pal's 1960 original, with a superb music score by Russell Garcia, added to the atmosphere created in the 1960 original. You had a real sense of Time Travel, and future happenings with the George Pal version. I give this update attempt 1 for awful.

Spoilers herein. This has no soul. But you knew that already. What's interesting is how the machine emulates film. Movies and books take us to different times and places at will, but we cannot change what is written. The world is divided into writers (Morlocs) and readers. The writers are in control -- they maintain us merely as food for their appetites. The war depicted in the book (and more briefly here) is a war of readers to wrest control. Unless we do, the future looks bleak. This was Welles' genius. The irony of this film is that some milchtoast bozo in Hollywood has acted on our behalf as revolutionary by proxy and has betrayed the very idea behind the story.

This movie didn't make a huge box-office mark,but I wish it had because I loved it.This is a great sci-fi adventure story that was very enjoyable from start to finish.Guy Pierce is a great leading man and I hope to see him play more leads in future movies.The special effects were colorful,imaginative and first class.I highly recommend this new version of "The Time Machine"; it's a fantastic update, without a doubt.

If I Had A Time Machine, I would go back 3 hours and stop myself from wasting my time and money on this very lame remake. This film has no heart or soul like the earlier version with Rod Taylor. It just limps along hoping to dazzel us with special effects. The so called directors of this film seem to be interested in effects rather than story telling. The male lead who was quite good in the Count of Monte Cristo as the villian, has absolutely no screen charm or charisma. A fact that I would attribute to poor directing. The earlier film version gave us something to think about, just as the book did. I also want to express my annoyance with how American movie studios feel the need to always make the storys' take place in the USA. In this version the setting is late nineteenth century New York City, as opposed to late nineteenth century London as in the book and earlier film. There is a lot of world out there beyond the U.S. borders it's time the Hollywood crowd woke up to that fact.