Timeline (2003)
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Critic Consensus: This incoherently plotted addition to the time-travel genre looks and sounds cheesy.
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Directing his first film since 1998's Lethal Weapon 4, Richard Donner helmed this big-budget adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. Featuring a script by first-time screenwriter George Nolfi, Timeline begins in France in the near future. A group of students from Yale are there studying a medieval site, when their professor, played by Billy Connolly, mysteriously goes missing. To make matters more enigmatic, the students are then taken back to the United States by a shadowy … More
| Rating: | PG-13 (for intense battle sequences and brief language) |
| Genre: | Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Directed By: | Richard Donner |
| Written By: | Robert Nolfi, Jeff Maguire, George Nolfi |
| In Theaters: | Nov 26, 2003 Wide |
| On DVD: | Apr 13, 2004 |
| Box Office: | $19.4M |
| Runtime: |
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All Critics (139) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (123) | DVD (23)
This big-budget adventure is based on a recent Michael Crichton thriller, though its premise is too stale to instill the sense of wonder critical to great sci-fi.
Yet another case of making time travel a messy ordeal rather than a load of fun, Timeline lacks the consistent tone, pace and point of view for either a science fiction thriller or medieval war adventure.
Weakly entertaining Middle Ages fantasy.
A competent cast keeps this eccentric time travel movie (based on a Michael Crichton novel) amusing if far from successful.
Timeline takes the most ridiculous movie plot ever and multiplies it by ten.
In Michael Crichton's oeuvre, this is more The 13th Warrior than Westworld. Silly larks for young boys with liberal parents.
Audience Reviews for Timeline
I like time travel movies, but this one leaves a bit to be desired. Usually when I watch a time travel movie, I imagine how cool it would be to be in their place - to find out some lost history or to be the wise character (with all your future knowledge), but it would not have been fun to live back in 1357.
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Some archaeologists realise their dream and get to travel back in time, only things don't go as well as they'd've hoped. With a loud music score and lots of running and chasing going on I had the impression that Donner barely tries to hide that one is actually watching an old silent movie serial updated with modern gee whiz technology. Soooo dumb I was almost insulted.
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A pretty forgettable film that goes nowhere fast.
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