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The Time Machine

  • 6.0 /10

  • 2351

  • 28%

Plot

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.

Cast

Guy Pearce as Alexander Hartdegen
Guy Pearce

as Alexander Hartdegen

Samantha Mumba as Mara
Omero Mumba as Kalen
Omero Mumba

as Kalen

Jeremy Irons as Über-Morlock
Jeremy Irons

as Über-Morlock

Sienna Guillory as Emma
Orlando Jones as Vox
Mark Addy as David Filby
Mark Addy

as David Filby

Phyllida Law as Mrs. Watchett
Phyllida Law

as Mrs. Watchett

Laura Kirk as Flower Seller
Laura Kirk

as Flower Seller

Josh Stamberg as Motorist
Josh Stamberg

as Motorist

Movie Facts

Rated

  • PG-13

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • March 4, 2002

Production Companies

  • DreamWorks Pictures

  • Warner Bros. Pictures

  • Parkes/MacDonald Productions

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $80,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $123,700,000.00

Runtime

  • 1.60 hrs

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Reviews

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 enter…

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 co…