TIMELINE

Scifind.co.uk rating - 2.5 - out of 5.

Reviewed By: Paul Mount

Starring: Peter Walker, Frances O’Connor, Billy Connelly, David Thewlis, Anna Friel,

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Let’s get something straight from the start. TIMELINE isn’t anything like as bad a movie as the press - both popular and genre - have tried to make out. I’m not suggesting for a moment that it’s anything like a really good film as it’s clearly not; it’s nothing more and nothing less than a fairly mundane, occasionally-competent science-fiction time-travel thriller and an amiable enough way of passing a couple of hours. The problem is that TIMELINE really should have been so much more…

Michael (JURASSIC PARK) Crichton’s novel was my poolside companion over a couple of days holidaying in Rhodes a few years back. As I finished the final page I remember musing to myself that Crichton had written (another) fast-paced roller-coaster ride adventure novel which was practically a screenplay in prose form. It’ll make a really good movie, I thought as I ordered another chees