WARNING: SPOILER
A girl's new lover is either a madman, or a time traveller - he says he is the latter (as any madman would). This leads to a number of scenes where the alleged madman or time traveller oscillates between very imaginative/narrative (he tells her about the future), very charming (he tells her he picked that year and place because of an old beautiful photo of her), very crazy (he has moments when he sees time flow backwards, this is the equivalent of jet-lag for time travelers).
All in all this gives a number of scenes of unequal quality involving the girls, the guy, the girl's girlfriend, the girl's shrink (also a time-traveller, who came to evade taxes), all in present-day New-York. The scenes are of very unequal quality, and in my view a good number are so weak that they could have been cut altogether.
In the end guess what, the girl very nearly gets hit by a car precisedly on the day the guy said she would, and before that she sees a photo of her that looks his drawings of his memories of that future photo of her - so yes, he is a time-traveller indeed!
Could have been a charming, non-tech time traveller film. But the editing should have been much stricter. Also, D'Onofrio, with that face and build everyone remembers in either The Cell, or Men in Black (where he was the Cockroach), really does not fit the bill - completely miscast.
I gave the film a 6. With a better cast (mainly replacing D'Onofrio), a better pace (thanks to better editing), it could have been a 7 or an 8.
A girl's new lover is either a madman, or a time traveller - he says he is the latter (as any madman would). This leads to a number of scenes where the alleged madman or time traveller oscillates between very imaginative/narrative (he tells her about the future), very charming (he tells her he picked that year and place because of an old beautiful photo of her), very crazy (he has moments when he sees time flow backwards, this is the equivalent of jet-lag for time travelers).
All in all this gives a number of scenes of unequal quality involving the girls, the guy, the girl's girlfriend, the girl's shrink (also a time-traveller, who came to evade taxes), all in present-day New-York. The scenes are of very unequal quality, and in my view a good number are so weak that they could have been cut altogether.
In the end guess what, the girl very nearly gets hit by a car precisedly on the day the guy said she would, and before that she sees a photo of her that looks his drawings of his memories of that future photo of her - so yes, he is a time-traveller indeed!
Could have been a charming, non-tech time traveller film. But the editing should have been much stricter. Also, D'Onofrio, with that face and build everyone remembers in either The Cell, or Men in Black (where he was the Cockroach), really does not fit the bill - completely miscast.
I gave the film a 6. With a better cast (mainly replacing D'Onofrio), a better pace (thanks to better editing), it could have been a 7 or an 8.