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| Year: | 2005 |
| Rating: | 4.1(9894) |
| Listed in: | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Peter Hyams |
| Actors: | Armin Rohde David Oyelowo Wilfried Hochholdinger Edward Burns Heike Makatsch Jemima Rooper |
| "Some Rules Should Never Be Broken." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Peter Hyams | |
| Actors | |
| Armin Rohde | as John Wallenbeck |
| David Oyelowo | as Payne |
| Wilfried Hochholdinger | as Dr. Lucas |
| Edward Burns | as Travis Ryer |
| August Zirner | as Clay Derris |
| Ben Kingsley | as Charles Hatton |
| Alvin Van Der Kuech | as Young Technician |
| Andrew Blanchard | as George the Doorman |
| William Armstrong | as Ted Eckles |
| Corey Johnson | as Christian Middleton |
| Scott Bellefeville | as Onlooker |
| Sai-Kit Yung | as Chinese Man I |
| Ho Hon Chou | as Chinese Man II |
| Antonin Hausknecht | as Taxi Driver |
| John Hyams | as Delivery Man |
| Martin Svetlik | as Grocery Boy |
| John Comer | as Grocery Man |
| Kurt Van Der Basch | as Armed Policeman |
| Vladimir Kulhavy | as Man at Eckles' |
| Jiri Klenot | as Man at Middleton's |
| Actresses | |
| Heike Makatsch | as Alicia Wallenbeck |
| Jemima Rooper | as Jenny Krase |
| Catherine McCormack | as Sonia Rand |
| Nikita Lespinasse | as Newswoman on TV |
| Anezka Novak | as Elderly Woman |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Mandarin |
| Filming dates: | 15 July 2002 - ? |
| Budget: | USD 52,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 1,891,821 USD (2 October 2005) Worldwide - 5,989,640 USD (13 October 2005) Czech Republic - 960,017 CZK (1 December 2005) Netherlands - 56,650 EUR (4 September 2005) Spain - 1,025,004 EUR (28 August 2005) |
| Plot: | 2055, Charles Hatton has made a fortune by founding 'Time safari', which offers rich 'big game hunters' short time travels to kill off dinosaurs just before their natural death. When Travis notices the weather and wildlife are not behaving as usual, he consults Dr. Rand, the contractually invisible inventor of the supercomputer which controls the time travel. They soon face 'time waves', each worsening the effects in 2055 of evolutionary distortions, lower lifeforms first. They attempt to identify and rectify the past alteration, but each attempt gets harder in their distorted present. |
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Goofs
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Fact errors: The insect that Middleton stepped on was a moth (Io Moth - Automeris io), not a butterfly as described. The insect on the movie's cover art is also a moth, a Black Witch (Ascalapha odorata). Continuity: The name on the back of Travis Ryer's helmet changes from saying "Ryer" to "Travis" and back again, through various scenes. In the short story, the protagonist's last name was Travis. Revealing mistakes: When the (computer-generated) eel-creature is first seen swimming along the surface of the water in the flooded subway tunnel, it doesn't create the slightest ripple or wave, indicating that the film makers did not take into account its interaction with the environment when they added it to the scene. Miscellaneous: When the main characters step out of the building and you see the "futuristic" traffic for the first time in the background, it is a loop and you see the same three vehicles pass by twice. Revealing mistakes: When Dr. Rand and Travis jump out of the observatory window into the tree, the branches that "broke" off have been cut off with a saw. Not broken. Continuity: Sonia explains how ripples in time prevented Travis from traveling back further by drawing a series of holographic ripples and pulling them towards the center on one side. During one shot, the ripples are suddenly all outward again, then pulled inwards again during the next shot. Continuity: When Travis is walking along the street with Jen, the traffic is zipping by to the left of them, but a close up on Travis shows no traffic activity in the glass of the building next to them. Fact errors: The behaviour of the water during the tunnel sequence is incorrect. The bubbles against the train windows could not happen as the windows were angled upwards which means the bubbles would rise straight up, not flow against the windows. Also the way the water flows into the train after the water creature breaks the window is shown, after the initial flow, as a high pressure spray rather the stead flow it would have been. Fact errors: Travis floats out of the train window, even though there would be insufficient current to cause him to come out of the open pane. Fact errors: SPOILER: The water creature suddenly bobs to the surface after Travis is rescued, despite the fact (a) there is insufficient current to move the creature and (b) the creature was crushed to death by the tunnel roof collapse which crushed the train. CHAR: After the crew returns from the trip, Ryer talks to Payne about the malfunction. Payne then mentions the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and that is says nothing can be certain. Actually, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle does not state that "nothing can be certain". It states that the momentum and position of any object cannot both be exactly known. As the precision with which one of these properties is known increases, the precision of the other property decreases. Similarly, with time and energy. This uncertainty in knowing these pairs of values is not due a defect in any instrument; it is a fundamental law of nature. CHAR: Sonia states that humans will be affected last by the time waves because they are the last beings to evolve. The most basic understanding of evolutionary theory suggests that all living things evolve continuously, so humans cannot by any means be called the beings to have evolved most recently. Continuity: The particle accelerator and all buildings are still present after Rand (and purportedly, all of humanity) is turned into a fish-being. This makes no sense. DATE: The men go back in time 65 million years, where they are attacked by an Allosaurus. However, Allosaurus lived during the Jurassic Period, which ended 145 million years ago. Continuity: Sonya has blood on her left cheek while talking with Travis on the sidewalk. It's gone when they cross the street to the median but it returns when they get to the Zoo. Continuity: When observing the Lion hologram Travis explains to Sonia that all animals - both in the wild and captivity - are now extinct due to poaching and an unspecified virus, with no DNA available for cloning purposes. However, in the following scene one client (Christian Middleton) asks the other, "What was the last really exciting thing you did? Play fetch with your dog?" PLOT: The film is excessively loose with its requirements for what constitutes a time altering event. For instance, any sound made by bullets fired, voices, footsteps, etc. would cause surrounding wildlife to react in a manner drastically different than if the alien noises had never been created. Furthermore, the presence of both the temporal pathway and the people walking upon it would divert wildlife from what would have been their original movements, causing drastically different outcomes for said creatures. PLOT: The Allosaurus never alters it's attack plan and movements (as displayed when Travis taunts the Allosaurus by exactly predicting its movements), regardless of such factors as hunting group size, conversation/noise, position upon the path, and individual actions. Continuity: Although client Christian Middleton's boot bottom is discovered to have a sizable portion of a large trampled "butterfly" (actually a moth) still attached, the muddy boot print from earlier in the film is almost entirely complete with no indication of disruption from an insect of that magnitude. PLOT: After Sonia asks Travis if it had been 24 hours since his last jump and he replies yes, she proceeds to wipe a window clean to show him that she had predicted the occurrence of a time wave. There is no basis for her 24 hour time period provided within the film, and other waves occur upon notably shorter intervals. Revealing mistakes: Although the Allosaurus can clearly see the hunters, when Travis accidentally travels to the desert the Native Americans and their horses have no discernible reaction to either his presence or the presence of the temporal path before them. PLOT: Even with willing suspension of disbelief for all the time paradoxes, the moth that Middleton stepped on would have been destroyed by the volcano's pyroclastic flow without him stepping on it. The moth's destruction on the normal timeline was not disruptive. FAIR: While one might expect that each group jumping to the same moment in the past (5 minutes before the volcano erupts) would in turn encounter all those from previous trips as well, adherence to such a claim would render the concept of time vacations completely unfeasible, and thus the film maker's decision to disregard this bit of logic is crucial to the film's coherency. This being said, Travis is only ever able to see himself and others by worm-holing to a point one year before the disturbance occurred and then slingshotting forward in time, not backward. |
Quotes
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John Wallenbeck: I haven't seen any wildlife yet. We could be in downtown Pittsburgh, for all I know. [referring to the allosaurus] Jenny Krase: Cute, isn't he? Charles Hatton: Today you stood shoulder to shoulder with Columbus discovering America. Armstrong stepping on the moon, Brubaker landing on Mars. You are true pioneers on the very last frontier: Time. Travis Ryer: Some things to remember us by: A safari suit, boots, helmet and a holo-disk so you can relive the jump. And I suggest you take an especially close look at this disk, Mr. Wallenbeck. John Wallenbeck: Why's that? Travis Ryer: Well I can't be certain until I review it myself, however, I'm pretty sure it was your shot that brought him down. John Wallenbeck: [laughs] Well, yeah. Alicia Wallenbeck: The doorman let me in. Told him I was your cousin from St. Louis. Travis Ryer: I always did like Aunt Martha. Ted Eckles: You sure we should be doing this? Christian Middleton: There's a six-year waiting list. We paid doulbe to cut to the head of the line, and you want to slink home? You gonna spend the rest of your life with balls the size of BBs? Ted Eckles: What the hell. Christian Middleton: They're so big I can hear them clanging. Ted Eckles: My gun doesn't work. Payne: Believe it or not, that's a safety feature. They're all tied to Travis' gun. It won't fire until he fires first. Ted Eckles: Why the hell not? Clay Derris: To keep clients from shooting things they shouldn't. Payne: Hey, Derris, how about we don't mention this in our report. Clay Derris: No harm, no foul. Payne: Appreciate it. You know, I'm not really that big of a dick. I just to like to talk. Travis Ryer: We cannot have accidents. Payne: While I was a physics major in college, we studied something called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. It proves that there is no such thing as zero tolerance. It doesn't exist. You basically can't be 100% sure of anything no matter how hard you try. Accidents... happen. Travis Ryer: We can't have accidents. Travis Ryer: [to Sonia] I thought I recognized your voice. You sound just like TAMI. Although she's a little nicer. Ted Eckles: It's awfully expensive... Christian Middleton: What's the point of being rich if you don't buy things other people can't afford? Christian Middleton: Ted, what's the point of being rich if we don't buy things other people can't afford? Sonia Rand: What did you change? Travis Ryer: We don't know. [after the commercial time machine is ruined, Sonia Rand manages to activate the plug and play Time Alteration Mainframe Interface - TAMI - program in the place that holds the original machine] TAMI: Hello, Dr. Rand. Where exactly are we? Sonia Rand: We're in the university. TAMI: In the public sector now? Not a good sign. Sonia Rand: Well, you're a hunter, so shoot me. Sonia Rand: With TAMI's hard drive, all we need is another portal. Jenny Krase: That's easy let's go to Home Depot. Sonia Rand: There's one nearby at the University. Jenny Krase: A Home Depot? |
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