The Time Machine inherits some pretty sweet concepts, is sensibly pretty short (96 minutes) and displays a couple of neat sets and props. HG Wells wrote the original story over a hundred years ago and the idea still has charm.
This film relocates the machine from London to New York (of course) and of course has updated some of the elements. I did like machine. It's all whirring gyroscopes, brass rings to tell the year and a leather bound old chair. Pretty nifty I reckon.
Then there's a hologram the time traveler meets in the future. The hologram (played by Orlando Jones) is a know all, literally. It's got the history of literature and science in it's computer memory banks and can launch into choral version of songs, in beautiful harmony just by replicating itself.
And then there's a phase in the future that we see involving the moon. This doesn't bear further explanation for fear of spoiling the idea, but that was interesting.
We later travel 800,000 years into the future which would have to be some sort of record for these films. What's recommended there are the dwellings of some of the humans living at that time. They're suspended on cliffs and really are eye catching.
The Time Traveler is called Alexander and is played by Aussie Guy Pierce. Pierce makes Alexander a rather fey, love sick puppy. That's fine until Alexander has to physically battle some baddies in the far future. By then The Time Machine had become fairly humdrum anyway.
2 Sets And Props Flys Out Of Five.
This film relocates the machine from London to New York (of course) and of course has updated some of the elements. I did like machine. It's all whirring gyroscopes, brass rings to tell the year and a leather bound old chair. Pretty nifty I reckon.
Then there's a hologram the time traveler meets in the future. The hologram (played by Orlando Jones) is a know all, literally. It's got the history of literature and science in it's computer memory banks and can launch into choral version of songs, in beautiful harmony just by replicating itself.
And then there's a phase in the future that we see involving the moon. This doesn't bear further explanation for fear of spoiling the idea, but that was interesting.
We later travel 800,000 years into the future which would have to be some sort of record for these films. What's recommended there are the dwellings of some of the humans living at that time. They're suspended on cliffs and really are eye catching.
The Time Traveler is called Alexander and is played by Aussie Guy Pierce. Pierce makes Alexander a rather fey, love sick puppy. That's fine until Alexander has to physically battle some baddies in the far future. By then The Time Machine had become fairly humdrum anyway.
2 Sets And Props Flys Out Of Five.