Science FictionAdventureAction

The Time Machine

- The greatest adventure THROUGH all time!

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.

Release Date : 2002-03-04

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : DreamWorks PicturesWarner Bros. PicturesParkes/MacDonald Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : Time Machine, The (2002)

Cast

Character Name : Alexander Hartdegen

Original Name : Guy Pearce

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mara

Original Name : Samantha Mumba

Gender : Female

Character Name : Kalen

Original Name : Omero Mumba

Gender : Male

Character Name : Über-Morlock

Original Name : Jeremy Irons

Gender : Male

Character Name : Emma

Original Name : Sienna Guillory

Gender : Female

Character Name : Vox

Original Name : Orlando Jones

Gender : Male

Character Name : David Filby

Original Name : Mark Addy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Watchett

Original Name : Phyllida Law

Gender : Female

Character Name : Flower Seller

Original Name : Laura Kirk

Gender : Female

Character Name : Motorist

Original Name : Josh Stamberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fifth Avenue Carriage Driver

Original Name : John W. Momrow

Gender : Male

Character Name : Robber

Original Name : Max Baker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Central Park Carriage Driver

Original Name : Jeffrey M. Meyer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Flower Store Worker

Original Name : Alan Young

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jogger

Original Name : Myndy Crist

Gender : Female

Character Name : Teacher

Original Name : Connie Ray

Gender : Female

Character Name : Soldier #1

Original Name : Lennie Loftin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eloi / Stunts

Original Name : Dana Schick

Gender : Female

Character Name : Soldier #2

Original Name : Thomas Corey Robinson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Toren

Original Name : Yancey Arias

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hunter Morlock

Original Name : Richard Cetrone

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hunter Morlock

Original Name : Edward Conna

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hunter Morlock

Original Name : Chris Sayour

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hunter Morlock

Original Name : Jeremy Fitzgerald

Gender : Male

Character Name : Spy Morlock

Original Name : Dorian Kingi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Spy Morlock

Original Name : Doug Jones

Gender : Male

Character Name : Spy Morlock

Original Name : Joey Anaya

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eloi (as Malaea Chona Jason)

Original Name : Chona Jason

Gender : Female

Character Name : Eloi

Original Name : Alex Madison

Gender : Female

Character Name : Eloi

Original Name : Mike Chaturantabut

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eloi

Original Name : Jon Valera

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eloi

Original Name : John Koyama

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eloi

Original Name : Jonathan Eusebio

Gender : Male

Reviews

JPV852

@JPV852

2022-06-04

Some interesting and even ambitious aspects but this sci-fi thriller was pretty uneven while the visual effects were also a mixed bag from being fairly impressive for its time (20 years now) to pretty shoddy. On the plus side, Guy Pearce was good in the lead. This one also reminded me when Orlando Jones was in a good amount of movies (18 between 1998-2004). IDK, this is one that did keep me entertained. **3.0/5**

GenerationofSwine

@GenerationofSwine

2023-01-14

I don't know how to approach this one. "The Time Machine" is one of those stories that, rereading it, beings back vivid memories. One of my best friends in high school loaned it to me, I stored it away in my backpack for about a month and then...when we had a field trip to The Board of Trade, I scrounged it out and read it on the train ride. It was one of those stories that is so short I could rip through it in the hour and fifteen minutes between our small town and Chicago. To this day, every time I go back to it, it brings me back to 1997 and, to this day, I distinctly remember finishing it about the time the train stopped and I remember walking into the crowded city feeling like I was in a different world. The story had moved me out of reality so much Chicago seemed jarring. And then they made it into a movie, a remake of a movie and, watching it, I don't know, I didn't have that same sense of being in a totally different world that the book gave me... And the movie, in my mind, has to live up to that experience in some small way. Or at least give you that feeling that same feeling that the world was still spinning that one gets when they walk out of a movie and discover that it had rained. It's an engrossing story and The Time Machine didn't seem to whisk me away like the book did. I can't help but feel it deserved better. It felt like I was watching a movie and, honestly, it gave me the same since that Jackson's King Kong did, it felt like it was trying and horribly, miserably failed. I left feeling "meh," and that was after being excited walking into it, I mean, I read it in 1997 and they made a movie in 2002 and, I was expecting the same feeling. I had waited long enough. So, I don't know, I may be overly harsh on it just because I loved what the story did to me so much, the first time I read it and now, as an adult, it doesn't take me to another world, it takes me back to 1997 again, and high school, and that hour fifteen minute train ride to Chicago. So ultimately, it could be a halfway decent film that I just hate because the story had such a jarring effect on me when I first encountered it.