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The Time Machine Movie Rating: 
Fairly Entertaining
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After a personal tragedy, scientist Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce)
invents a time machine so he can alter the past. On his first time leap, he
learns the painful lesson that he can change circumstances but not outcome.
Looking for answers to why he can't change the past, he hurtles 800,000 years
forward in time, where society has devolved into a battle between the
cliff-dwelling Eloi and the subterranean Morlock races.
Director Simon Wells, great-grandson of H. G. Wells, is respectful of the original novel's plot, but he's more interested in showcasing some amazing visual effects than exploring the author's concerns about futurism, evolution, class consciousness, and socialism. Without the philosophical and theological themes, the movie manages to be only decent popcorn entertainment, which probably won't stand the test of time. |
 Guy Pearce. Photo by Andrew Cooper courtesy of Dreamworks Pictures |
Gay Interest:
LittleAs the Uber-Morlock, Jeremy Irons looks like a decrepit Nelson twin, but once he was the picture of closeted youth in the ITV production of Evelyn Waugh's gay-themed Brideshead Revisited. Pearce was the baby drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. | |
