The Time Machine (2002)

The Time Machine: Directed by Simon Wells. With Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Sienna Guillory. Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.

“Since Herbert George Wells(1866-1946)u0026#39; u0026quot;The Time Machineu0026quot; happens to be one of my favorite novels I was interested in this film mainly to see how the old manu0026#39;s great-grandson would handle his legacy.This film left me with mixed feelings.Many good points and many bad ones.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Good:I truly enjoyed the 19th centurie scenes with Alexander and Emma.Her tragic death and Alexanderu0026#39;s wish to change it provides our Time Traveler with serious motivation that he seemed to luck in the book.His obsession with his work is another good point.When you turn all your efforts towards one point then it is more probable that you will achieve your goals.The scenes while the machine is operating are visualy beautiful.Alexander as a u0026quot;wandering foolu0026quot; and his amazement at the 21st centurie achievements are well done.The Uber-Morlock was quite impressive, his seing the memories, dreams and nightmares of others seem to have left him with a lot of wisdom.His lack of emotions in a matter of survival for himself and his race is understandable.Why should he be shocked?Humanity has fed on flesh for milenia.We knowed and we donu0026#39;t get shocked by it.Why should he be?He actualy seems evolved rather than devolved as the other Morlocks.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Bad:In the original novel humanity supposedly reached a golden age.The upper-class used the lower-class to achiebe its dream.A life with no worries.The upper-class lived in magnificent towers while the lower class was forced to live below the earth, in tunnels.As time went on the upper-class evolved to the Eloi living in a paradise.Childlike in appearance and in nature.Their luck of problems left them with no need to studie and eventualy all the wisdom of their founders was lost.They were left using achievements they couldnu0026#39;t understand and couldnu0026#39;t maintaine.The lower-class evolved into the Morlocks.Forgotten by the Eloi they were left to feed on each other and eventualy reached the surface and started feeding on the Eloi.Both races were devolved when the Time Traveler arrived.The only person from this time he actualy likes was Weena a young Eloi girl he saved who grew attached to him.In the novel they wander around studying the state of decline the human races had reached.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eUnfortunately all this history of the two races is lost in this movie.The plot about the Moon falling was rather ridiculous and hardly explained the evolution of the two races.The Eloi of the film are much more inteligent than those in the movie but nothing interesting is truly done with them.I was hoping to see Alexander trying to teach his new roomates some of his wisdom.But nothing like this happens.Why would Alexander be interested in those two races isnu0026#39;t explained.Why would he pass two chances to return to his time isnu0026#39;t expained at all.What gives him the right to kill the Morlocks is left equaly unexplained.The u0026quot;Happyu0026quot; ending leaves him living in a time that shouldnu0026#39;t held any interest for a science-loving man.Nothing to explore or study.After his experience with time travel I donu0026#39;t think he would just be content left in one or the other point of the time stream.Rather unfortunate progress.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt could have been a classic if only the finale didnu0026#39;t resemble stupid adventure movies rather than the original novel or any other piece of fiction with an actual interest in the concept of time traveling.Alas the Wells family seems to be devolving too.”