Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Guy PearceAlexander Hartdegen
- Samantha MumbaMara
- Omero MumbaKalen
- Jeremy IronsÜber-Morlock
- Sienna GuilloryEmma
- Orlando JonesVox
- Mark AddyDavid Filby
- Phyllida LawMrs. Watchett
- Laura KirkFlower Seller
- Josh StambergMotorist
Recommendations
- 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
The film, in its early going, also has a nice light humor about it, and an engaging, albeit tragic, love story. - 60
The A.V. Club
Machine makes its look-to-the-future-not-the-past message as clear as a Grammy acceptance speech, but as an exploration of regret and the elusive quality of time, it falls well short of "Memento," another film starring a sad-eyed Pearce. - 60
Washington Post
Amazingly stilted before accelerating into its exciting finish. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
There's something wrong with a time-travel movie that allows an audience's interest to drift so that we have time to worry over where he's parked, and whether he remembered to take his key. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Deliberately quaint and old-fashioned, a once-over-slightly exercise in nostalgic wonder directed by the British-born great-grandson of H.G. Wells, who treats the spirit of his ancestor's novel with literal-minded fealty. - 50
Washington Post
Weirdly disjointed and uncertain as to tone. - 40
The New York Times
This uninviting and pallid version, starring Guy Pearce, is intent on grinding all the sharp edges off the original story, in effect making the movie childproof, so no one can get hurt touching it. - 40
Variety
Breaks down when it gets to the distant future, which in this case isn't a good place to be stranded.
