The Butterfly Effect

After going through a pretty messed up childhood, which included, killing, child pornography, a ton of fighting and a crazy father, Evan has to ( at around 10 ) write down memories as he tends to black out alot, and forgets the last hour or so. Jump to his mid 20's and now he's doing perfect in college and went nearly 10 years without having a blackout. After hooking up with a chick, she makes him read a memory from one of his diary books. After reading some of it, things get weird, and he blacks out, and gets a bad nose bleed. After wondering what all went down, he went on reading it by himself, and found that he has the power to read his own memory and go back to the past ( for who knows how long ) and change it, to make it better. Each time he does this, something drastic happens, whether it be, the loss of this arms, the changing of a friends behavior, or the death of a very close loved one. He goes back to try to fix things, only to find that you fix one thing, and something else happens.


Well, the film might of been a little slow in the beginning, but damn, was this an epic film. Acting was at it's finest from all that were in the film. The story was so strong, I had wished there was another hour, just to show more of Evan trying to fix his past and future. The whole concept of going back to change one thing and break another is very strong in this film, hence the name.

The effects in the film were very slim, but there were some, mainly seeing the lead breaking from his world and going back to his kid self, or teenage self. There were 2 other actors that played Evan, one when he's around 8 the other around 16, both looking very much like Kutcher. They did a very good job and finding the kid actors to look like the older self.

The plot may be shorter since I didn't really want to spoil to much, since a ton of stuff went on that ( to me ) would be to much of a spoiler.

This film did spawn 2 sequels. But not one following the previous one, and well, not nearly as good as this one.

I give, Butterfly Effect. 8/10

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