Timeline (Widescreen Edition)

Rating:
Summary: Avoid this one...
Review: I must agree with most who say the acting in this movie was beyond sub par. The script made little sense and had so many plot holes that it was hard to stick with it to the end. If there is a God, Paul Walkers' movie career should end here. His "whoa, dude" style of performance was completely out of place in the film, and I really doubt that he has the talent to pull off any other type of role. Avoid [...] and hopefully Crichton will have the sense to be more careful when green-lighting adaptations of his novels.

Rating:
Summary: A jumbled confusion of action with some beautiful panoramas
Review: This film could have been great. The incredible battle sequences at the castle and the detail on the medieval customs and architecture were wasted on the poorest adaptation of a book I have ever seen. This should have been split into two movies (ala Lord of the Rings) or at the very least run a half hour longer.

Too much of the exisitng footage was wasted on implausible escapes and mindless chases, and not enough set-up was engineered to make the audience believe in time travel or what the connection was between the archeological dig and the medieval war. The concept of the little time-transport amulets idiotic and I found myself neither caring which side won (Emglish vs. French) nor understanding why they were fighting.

There was nothing in this film to capture my imagination. Just a whirlwind of disjointed action sequences splendidly filmed and passably acted.