The Time Traveler's Wife

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The film opens around Christmastime with a mother driving her son, Henry in the car. They are involved in a car accident, and Henry's mother dies on impact, but Henry survives by time traveling back to a scene two weeks prior to the accident.

Henry is a man with a genetic disorder that allows him to time travel. He meets Claire in a bar, whom he's met in the past as a little girl. When Henry and Claire meet in the meadow behind Claire's parents house it seems unusual to see an adult and child talking so cordially about the future. It's also unusal how the first time we meet Claire she seems to know that she will end up with Henry, but there relationship still seems to just begin impulsively and too soon, as though someone started the fairytale with a push button start.

Throughout the movie it feels like you're reading a diary in fragments. Stories from multiple perspectives or that may diverge back into the past usually make great stories, but not in this particular case. For this film I would recommend reading the book, which I think would make for a great story, but can't be appreciated in film. At the very least I think it wasn't properly portrayed for its own sake. The end of the movie does become quite entertaining and engaging, but only after about an hour and a half. This story is best read.

6.5/10

Skip it :(