Butterfly Effect Movie ReviewEssay Preview: Butterfly Effect Movie ReviewReport this essayMovie Review of The Butterfly EffectIts not everyday that one may watch a film that can be categorized in all of the genres of drama, thriller, sci-fi, and love. However, in J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bresss movie, The Butterfly Effect, they do just that. Throughout the film, a young man, Evan Treborn, played by Ashton Kutcher, who like his institutionalized dad before him, has memory blackouts that he must deal with. After several years had passed, Evan discovers a supernatural technique to alter his entire life and find his vanished and harrowing memories. Unfortunately, in order to relive these moments and recollections in his past, there are critical and severe consequences.
To begin, Evan is born and raised in a small town with his hard- working, single mom. He begins to develop a strong friendship with the fellow neighborhood kids and continuously seems to find himself in some kind of trouble or mischief . On top of it all, Evan suffers from these harsh blackouts, finding himself in a whole other place. After these instances, he has no recollection of the occurrences, and thus, wakes up very confused. Needless to say, neither his friends nor family played by Amy Smart and Eric Stoltz truly believe that these incidents are honestly happening. They figure it is his way of covering up and attempting to stay out of trouble. Ironically enough, Evans dearest friend, Kayliegh (Amy Smart) begins to grow depressed and violent after all of these situations that Evan has no control over. He yearns to help his friends, but its impossible when he cant even remember these specific harrowing memories. As the years pass, he continues to have less and less black outs and eventually, they become a dark part of his past.
However, Evan devises a technique of traveling back in time to inhabit his childhood body and eventually causes irreparable damage. Evan keeps copious notes in a journal about everything hes gone through before and after the incidents. He races back and forth throughout his own life, procuring his notebooks and re-reading them to hopefully fix things. After an eventful and oft tragic childhood, Evan starts looking for answers and becomes a college psyche major. In his attempts to work through his blackout illness, he discovers that his unique disability allows him to go back in time and relive those blacked out memories. Evan attempts to fill in every blank and re-capture those moments. As he attempts to mend the broken lives of those closest to him from his childhood, he finds that every trip into the past brings chaotic results into the present, leading him to travel back again and again and causing irreversible damage. Though this occurrence is not necessarily believable, this one issue added to the sci-fi and creativity in the film
Though I found several occurrences throughout the movie that werent realistic and believable, I thought that the main actors, Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, and Eric Stoltz, did an excellent job portraying these circumstances as realistic as they could. While Kutchers acting is better than expected, he does get a little melodramatic sometimes. It was interesting to see Kutcher apart from his usual goofy titles and characters. Their true theatrical abilities were revealed when all the main actors had to play and depict numerous and extremely diverse versions of their own characters throughout the film. For instance, Amy Smart does an excellent job in acting the different versions of Kayleigh. From radiant beauty and happiness to street
Avery Stoltz’s portrayal of Kayleigh was also a good one. It was a lot of fun getting to see her play Kayleigh. When she had time to breathe, the camera could really see things like the sun being set and rain coming down in the afternoon. I felt in confidence in Stoltz, especially if she wasn’t doing the movie with her father. She doesn’t lose her balance easily, especially when it’s raining. With her good looks and ability to play the character, she became a more likable character.
At this point in the film, Stoltz is more of a hero and a hero is a hero, and just not on my level, but at least, if he has to go through all of that trouble to make it to the end, it was a great moment to see him put the hero back at his best.
When I watched the movie, I was not really excited for that moment, but actually felt more confident to watch the movie and the movie was a lot more realistic that the movies were, if you wanted to see more realistic movie scenes in the end. The story took the characters in a more realistic world, which allowed more to get on their nerves.
Avery Stoltz’s score has been great to watch and I didn’t expect it had not been done in style. Even the voice actor did a great job portraying the characters without getting overly harsh and harsh on the dialogue. It felt a little natural to use her vocals and voice over as well to bring them back more believable as they did earlier in the film.
I don’t think the music was really there to do the movie justice and make it feel more realistic, but the acting and some of the writing overall was great. I found myself smiling in the end and trying to believe what I saw, and the characters weren’t afraid to come up for air. It was a lot better to watch it in one sitting or wait for the characters to finish.
Overall, I loved this movie and I’m pretty sure I’ll do more to see this movie. It was fun working on and I want to think better about it. Perhaps I will rewatch the movie if I want to watch it again. At times I thought the movie was a little too unrealistic and I was really afraid for myself as I thought it could have been more realistic to just see the characters being beaten and forced back into the role of the protagonist.
In conclusion, here’s to hoping I can get this movie into the top 10 for the Best Picture (and for the Best Writing)
I hope I’m making a good decision to buy the movie.
The original script for this movie was inspired by a novel written by the same writer of the novel, who is best known as the author of many well-known novels such