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| Timeline [2003] | ![Timeline [2003]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AMW006YGL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Paul Walker, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, Frances O'connor, David Thewlis
Studio: Entertainment in Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (30 reviews)
Sales Rank: 7422
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 115 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017239192296
ASIN: B0001B3XX4
Release Date: April 26, 2004
Theatrical Release Date: November 26, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Just enough of Michael Crichton's novel survives in ITimeline/I to make it a passable popcorn thriller. It's likely that Crichton fans will lament the shallowness of director Richard Donner's film, and its gee-whiz style of acting lays waste to any scientific credibility that Crichton's scenario might have retained. Still, the Crichton formula is a sturdy one, following the model of IWestworld/I and IJurassic Park/I by involving a small band of adventurers in a fantastical realm of danger and death. In this case, a group of archaeologists and combat experts (led by Paul Walker and Frances O'Connor) use a "3-D fax machine" (so much for technobabble) to time-travel back to France in 1357, in hope of retrieving Walker's father (Billy Connolly) and returning safely to the present. No such luck. Fending for themselves against marauding hordes of medieval French warriors at war with the invading British, these semi-intrepid travellers find their body count rising, and the deadline for their return home is rapidly approaching. All well and good, so far, and the castles-and-crossbows action reaches a fever pitch, but it's obvious that Donner is too lazy to make the much better film that this could and should have been. Despite its enjoyable highlights, ITimeline/I is perfunctory entertainment. --IJeff Shannon/I
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 Slick adaptation of the original novel December 10, 2008
Virtually Maria (Virtual Trilogy)br /br /As a great fan of the sadly lamented Micheal Crichton, who has written a trilogy of time travel books of my own, I would recommend this DVD as a slick and entertaining adaptation of the original novel.br /br /OK - there isn't the attention to detail and the intricately woven technical explanation that made Crichton's novel so believable that you felt you could go out and build a time machine of your own out of a fax machine and a laser pointer. But hey, this is Hollywood!br /br /The techno-babble is plausible enough, the battle scenes are fantastic, the bad guys are wonderful and the extras on the DVD - particularly the documentary narrated by Richard Donner on how the movie was made - are extremely good and well worth the money.br /br /It's not quite Jurassic Park, but it's a good movie and a great way to spend an evening with a cold beer and a hot pizza.
Nearly five stars! October 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Good fun, watchable, and enjoyable. Harmless, if a little unbelieveable. Well acted and a good collection of faces. Worth watching, but what was King Leonidis doing in middle ages France? lol.
 ' Timeline ' a Good Effort September 16, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Rather than repeating the plot line I will pass general comments.br /br /It was only after watching ' Timeline ' was I aware that it was Directed by ' Richard Donner ' { think Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut }br /br /Timeline's has a Claimed budget of $ 80,000,000 although this may be widely inaccurate.br /br /You really have to watch it twice as it grows on you and it does have some very interesting extras. br /br /The Trebuchet Scenes make up for any plot holes . { and ' Night Arrows ' is a very interesting concept }br /br /By the way there was a substance that was called 'Greek fire' which may have been a 'thermite-like' reaction, possibly involving a quicklime or similar compound.br /br /Its the only DVD I know where I ended up supporting the French against the English.br /br /All in all its a enjoyable dvd.
 Rubbish July 29, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's rubbish. I'd give it a minus if Amazon allowed.br /Save your money. br /Buy the book instead.br /They say creative authors die young. Poor Michael Crichton must be just about ready to pop his cork if he has seen this abortion of his novel.br /The book is fantastic. Please buy that and avoid this movie pile of acky-poo!
A fine example of the Dumbhouse genre July 13, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
You may not be familiar with Dumbhouse, possibly because I just made it up. Think Grindhouse, but big and stupid instead of cheap and exploitative. These are the kind of films that entertain because they are so daffy and make so little sense - either through ineptitude or simple laziness - and Timeline fits into this genre perfectly.br /br /The story goes: Archeologist Billy Connolly is trapped in fourteenth century France, an accident caused by a Stargate-type gizmo that's created a wormhole in time. Connolly's son - Paul 'Bro' Walker, who is rebelling against archeology - teams up with a group of similarly underqualified folks to dress up in costumes and head back in time to rescue dad. They're in a real rush about it, too, which makes no sense when you think about it. And that is the joy of Dumbhouse.br /br /What makes Timeline such a great Dumbhouse film is that it centres around time travel, and those stories hardly ever work - always leaving themselves open to giant plot holes and random idiotic happenings. With this one, that means treating the wormhole as though it is a tunnel to another place rather than another era (Why rush? The fourteenth century was over quite a while ago and you are TRAVELLING IN TIME) and explaining the time travel process by comparing it to sending a fax (there's a reason why it's called a facsimile, fake scientist types - you don't send an actual piece of paper down the phone line). What Timeline does best is prove that time travel can never be possible because it's just too stupid to exist.br /br /Another prerequisite for Dumbhouse status is the presence of a wooden actor, and we get that in the form of Walker. To be fair to the guy, it's not all his fault. His character is given hardly anything to do, leaving him to wander around in search of some charisma. He doesn't find any.br /br /There's more to say - Anna Friel's baffling accent, our heroes' tendency to extricate themselves from trouble only to stumble right into it again (seriously, these guys are the worst time travellers ever) - but there isn't space here to do it justice. Suffice to say, fellow connoiseurs of Dumbhouse should check this one out immediately. It's spectacularly awful.
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