One Sunday afternoon recently I watched the remake of The Time Machine (2002) and I felt that although this film was made some years ago it deserved some space here. Upon some quick research, it seems this film is often neglected for the original. On the Wikipedia page this film only has three lines. The film begins on a young professor, Alexander Hartdegen, in Victorian England. After he proposes to his sweetheart she tragically dies. After creating a time-machine, he goes back in time to save her but soon discovers that this is impossible. Searching for a solution, he travels into the future before finally reaching 800,000 years into the future. Due to evolutionary changes, there are several offshoots to the human race who are less than friendly and Alexander strives to protect humans from their nearest relative.
Here is an example of a decent storyline with characters who appear to act and react without the writer's puppet-strings being visible. You can almost forget that this is written by other people and believe in the storyline once the sporadic time travelling at the start has settled down. The Time Traveller is well written and produced, with dedicated actors who know their trade.
This is definitely an under-rated film. I enjoyed this film thoroughly, so it earns a 5 out of 5.
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