Timeline

Another book adaptation. Another terrible book adaptation. Michael Crichton, the master behind such works as Jurassic Park and Westworld (now that is a terribly fun movie), writes entertaining well. Timeline was one of those fun, medieval, time travel books that just worked. Quality stuff. But the movie, well... damn. No good at all. The script took liberties with the source material, which is excusable if it didn't result in such a crappy end. Paul Walker, bless his heart, just can't act. And the whole vision and scope of the novel was brutalized. I love the medieval subject, and when it is done right on film, it can be great. Timeline is not one of those, and I pity the fool who has to sit through the entire thing. Or the fool who loves the movie. If such a person exists.

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