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The Time Machine (2002)
5.7
Ratings: 5.7/10 from 54,858 users
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42/100
Reviews: 594 user | 120 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races. Director:Simon Wells |
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Jeffrey M. Meyer | ... |
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Based on the classic sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells, scientist and inventor, Alexander Hartdegen, is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to change the past. Testing his theories with a time machine of his own invention, Hartdegen is hurtled 800,000 years into the future, where he discovers that mankind has divided into the hunter - and the hunted. Written by Tim1370
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0 to 800,000 years in 1.2 seconds. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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La máquina del tiempo See more »Box Office
Budget:
$80,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$22,610,437 (USA) (10 March 2002) (2944 Screens)Gross:
$123,729,176 (Worldwide)Company Credits
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Alexander Hartdegen: This is, this is a perversion of every natural law.
Über-Morlock: [grabs him by the throat] And what is time travel but your pathetic attempted to try to control the world around you? Your futile effort to have a question answered? You think I don't know you, Alexander? I can look inside your memories, your nightmares, your dreams. You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words: What if?
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Guy Pearce did most of his own stunts, and occasionally got frustrated when he wasn't allowed to do a few. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: During Prof. Hartdegen's first talk with the VOX unit in the city, he clearly asks the unit for more info on temporal causality and temporal paradox. Both these phenomena are what the uber' Morlock explains to him towards the end of the film when he tells the professor that he cannot save Emma because it would create a temporal paradox. So, if the professor even had a passing knowledge of what those terms meant, he would already know why he cannot change the past and would have never required to go anywhere. See more »Quotes
Über-Morlock: Who are you to question 800,000 years... of evolution?Alexander Hartdegen: This is, this is a perversion of every natural law.
Über-Morlock: [grabs him by the throat] And what is time travel but your pathetic attempted to try to control the world around you? Your futile effort to have a question answered? You think I don't know you, Alexander? I can look inside your memories, your nightmares, your dreams. You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words: What if?
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Connections
Featured in "The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Repo Men/The Bounty Hunter/The Runaways (#2.11)" (2010) See more »
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