While the script could have done more to exploit Bana's sense of humour, it does profit from his directness. There are no false heroics.
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11/05/09
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
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Reviews Counted:148
Fresh:56
Rotten:92
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Though it may satisfy fans of the novel, The Time Traveler's Wife's plot contrivances and illogical narrative hamper its big screen effectiveness.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $63,387,284
Synopsis: Based on the best-selling book about a love that transcends time. Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows... [More]
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Ron Livingston, Arliss Howard
Director: Robert Schwentke
Reviews for The Time Traveler's Wife
Top CriticSure to hit the spot for anyone with an appetite for sweet, unselfconscious romantic fantasy.
11/05/09
Top CriticBana and McAdams do share a pleasant chemistry, but can never quite trump the dull and earnest nature of the material they are working with here.
11/05/09
Top CriticThis is undoubtedly Bana's best American performance and you can genuinely believe in Bana and McAdams as lovers who give the story its emotion.
11/05/09
Top CriticI don’t think the book is a masterpiece but the film is just plain disappointing.
11/04/09
Top CriticWithout any notion of what type of film it wants to be, The Time Traveller's Wife is neither funny nor charming, moving nor romantic.
11/04/09
Top CriticThe Time Traveller's Wife makes for an enjoyable enough movie experience, if all you are after is a few tears, a nice romance and a frequently naked Eric Bana; but viewers unfamiliar with the novel might be left wondering what all the fuss was about.
11/03/09
Top CriticIt's a complex and often confusing story as the two key characters weave in and out of different time zones, but somehow it works; no doubt due to terrific performances by Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana
10/31/09
Top CriticA graceful, elegant love story, that carefully avoids quasi-science, time travelling philosophy or mills and boon style passionate embraces, focussing instead on the means by which two truly star crossed lovers cope with their unique lives together.
11/04/09
Top CriticO cineasta se sai bem ao desenvolver seus personagens e a trama sem permitir que a possibilidade do excesso de açúcar afunde o projeto.
10/16/09
I think the time travel is a metaphor for relationship problems, so it explored that. I just would have rather seen a time travel movie.
09/09/09
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09/09/09
Time travel trips up this Wife.
08/29/09
The Time Traveler's Wife is an effective romance film for the ladies with a patina of science fiction to woo their boyfriends into joining.
08/28/09
Good cast plus weak script equals so-so movie.
08/27/09
A fastidiously old-fashioned love story with sloppy, soppy existential ideas and more than enough droll narrative tricks to see it through to the end.
08/25/09
An agreeable time filler but not much more.
08/21/09
The movie moves fast, as though to distract you from these shortcomings and the nearly total absence of logic.
08/21/09
... a science-fiction date flick, tailor-made to draw the chicks and the dudes in equal numbers ...
08/20/09
Time travel is an interesting plot device, even when it doesn't work well. It works just barely well enough in this movie.
08/19/09
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