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In the year 2002, Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) frequently suffers from blackouts, often at moments of high stress. As a young child (played by Logan Lerman) and adolescent (played by John Patrick Amedori), Evan suffered many severe sexual abuse and psychological traumas. These traumas include being forced to take part in child pornography, being strangled by his mentally-ill father, causing an accident with dynamite with his friends, and seeing his dog being burned by his friend. Seven years later, while "entertaining" a girl in his dorm room, he realizes that when he reads from his adolescent journals, he can travel back in time, and is able to "redo" parts of his past. His time traveling episodes account for the frequent blackouts he experienced as a child. However, there are consequences to his choices that propagate back to his present life, his alternate personal futures progress from college student, to prisoner, to amputee. His efforts are driven by the desire to undo the most unpleasant events of his childhood which coincide with his mysterious blackouts, including saving his childhood sweetheart Kayleigh (Amy Smart) from being molested by her father (Eric Stoltz) and tormented by her sadistic brother (William Lee Scott). The actions he takes, and enables others to take during his blackouts, change the timeline in the new future where he awakes. As he continues to do this he realizes that even though his intentions are good, his actions have unforeseen consequences. Moreover, the assimilation of dozens of years' worth of new memories from the alternate timelines causes him brain damage and severe nosebleeds. Ultimately, he decides that his attempts to alter the past end up only harming those he cares about, and realizes that the main cause of everyone's suffering in all the different timelines is himself. At the conclusion of the film, Evan purposely travels back in time one final time to the first day he met Kayleigh. Before this, Evan learns that Kayleigh had a choice to either stay with her mom or her dad. Because she wanted to stay with Evan, she decided to stay with her dad, which caused all the problems in the first place. By scaring her away, Evan makes sure that she goes with her mom, thus allowing her to never be a part of his life. Through this, Evan finally succeeds in saving her life. He then destroys all of his journals and memories so that he is not ever tempted again to make any more changes. The film ends eight years in the future with Evan leaving an office building in Manhattan and passing Kayleigh on a crowded sidewalk. They alternately pause and turn after spotting and passing each other. After a moment of hesitation, Evan lets her walk away without speaking to her.Read full review
The Butterfly Effect stars Ashton Kutcher. Usually known as a funny man, this is a different kind of role for him. Playing a college students who discovers something about himself that shouldn't be possible. He is able to go back to a past part of his life and change the outcome of his actions. Trying to right his wrongs can sometimes get him in more trouble than anything else. The DVD is loaded with special features including deleted scenes and an alternate ending. While not being one of my favorite movies of all time, I would recommend it. It has a great story line and the actors do a wonderful job.
The Butterfly Effect stars Ashton Kutcher. Usually known as a funny man, this is a different kind of role for him. Playing a college students who discovers something about himself that shouldn't be possible. He is able to go back to a past part of his life and change the outcome of his actions. Trying to right his wrongs can sometimes get him in more trouble than anything else. The DVD is loaded with special features including deleted scenes and an alternate ending. While not being one of my favorite movies of all time, I would recommend it. It has a great story line and the actors do a wonderful job.
Ashton Kutcher did a great job of portraying everything from happiness to severe emotional pain and physical pain. This movie certainly shows that he can fit most any role. His expressions are fantastic. The movie was sometimes hard to keep up with later on and it got pretty confusing towards the end. It isn't a movie that I would want to watch again and again. I might want to watch it once more to make sure I understood the ending. It will definitely keep your attention for fear you will miss something!
I like The Butterfly Effect because it's a very interesting look on the theory of time-rift and it stars Ashton Kutcher, one of my favorite actors, in a more serious role than he is usually in. I hope he does more movies like this and become a serious actor because he proved he can do it in this movie. However, if he does more comedies soon, that would be fine as well. Lately he hasn't been in movies since he is busy with reality T.V. shows such as: Beauty And The Geek, Adventures In Hollyhood (Three 6 Mafia & Project Pat), Miss Guided, The Real Wedding Crashers, Room 401, and Pop Fiction. However, Ashton Kutcher will be in 1 movie this year, What Happens In Vegas... (with Cameron Diaz, Queen Latifah & Dennis Miller) and 2 next year, Personal Effects and Spread. The sequel, Butterfly Effect 2, doesn't come close to how great the original is. Partly because it's a new cast and there's not too many flashbacks to when the main character was younger. There is some interesting scenes such as a friend of his being put through a glass table but not much else. I think the same thing happened with the sequel to White Noise. I recommend The Butterfly Effect, but not the sequel. The first one is 5-stars, the second is 2-3 stars.Read full review
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