Gerard Butler as Marek came off as the only character that was worthy enough to be cast. I loved his performance and felt he stole this movie. If it weren't for him, this definitely would have been a waste of 2 hours. Marek and Lady Claire (Anna Friel) had  some chemistry for the paltry amount of screen time they had together.

The acting in this film is so pathetic that it makes you laugh. Walker wants to be a serious actor....get real. He delivers his lines with such a joking matter that it makes you wonder how he got cast in the first place. Every movie I've seen him in he sounds the same. I was also disappointed with Frances O'Connor, who seems to be there for sex appeal and emotional relief. I did not buy it when she uttered the cliché "it's all my fault" lines inside the tunnel. Even the bumbling professor Johnston could have been portrayed as knowledgeable instead of a dumb nincompoop. I especially thought it was funny when they killed Englishmen, they were all sad about it afterwards. It was just really bad to watch them attempt to feel sorry because it was self defense but portrayed as murder. Didn't make much sense to me.

The dialogue was so cheesy and bad that I had to pause and rewind several times in order to believe it myself. I wondered how Walker's surfer accent didn't get him killed back then when the English and French were quite suspicious of people being spies and such. The professor came off as incompetent and all of the students alleged knowledge of history from this era did them no good whatsoever. They had no clue of how to sneak about and even distract anyone. They got one of their friends killed by their utter stupidity. Yeah, let's bring a French kid and then tell the English he's French, but no, he's our friend, not a spy! R-i-i-i-i-ght.

The action seemed to be a desperate attempt to save this movie from self destruction but it too failed. With all the bad dialogue and plot holes such as the time continuity being irrelevant, not even the intense battle sequences could save this. For instance, if all this had happened back then and found in the future before and after the events, then what was the point of this movie? It made no sense and could only be described as a head scratcher. The fighting scenes were okay but overplayed and it seemed like this whole film was a game of cat and mouse or hide and seek.

Continuity pretty much went out the window with this ridiculous plot. The students are in Castle guard, France but they go to the ITC center in New Mexico...so when they are sent through this wormhole they end up in Castle guard France! Of course....I would have thought maybe if they were in France then this would make sense... they should have been sucked back into time and spat out in New Mexico where Indians could attack them. The ending too was not satisfactory. The attempt to make this into a love story fell short. The background history of Lady Claire and Marek were too vague, rushed, and I did not care less whether she got killed or survived.

A vague misrepresentation of the 100 years war filled with plot holes and cheesy dialogue, Timeline was in fact, a waste of time. Mix that with bad acting and you've got a prescription for failure. Although Gerard Butler seemed enjoyable to watch, the rest of the cast's acting was wretched. I want my two hours back.

• When Claire and Merrick are floating down the river, the raft she is in is visibly held together by industrial staples.
• When Lord Arnaut is in the tunnel with Chris and Kate after the explosion, one of the "rocks" on the ground is obviously made of foam.
• When Marek and De Kere are falling down the steps, a "dead" soldier lifts his head up.
• When the group is leaving to go back you can see Josh grab his bag and come down the stairs, in the next shot Doniger calls him to come down and watch, in which Josh again grabs his bag and comes down the stairs.

[   Shop Movie Posters   |   Link to Us   |   FAQ   |   Top^   ]
All written reviews material and content are a copyright of Felix Vasquez Jr. and Cinema Crazed.
Content borrowed without written permission will not be permitted.

¤ ¤ ¤