Having seen and loved the first The Butterfly Effect and seen the second The Butterfly Effect 2. I did not really like the second movie as I felt it would have been nicer to see a prequel to the first. I did feel it was an acceptable revisit to the universe. This movie was a mess. They were messing up the theory too much for it to be believable. I am a very trusting viewer and I like to accept that although a movie may seem unreal if it is real from within their universes then I accept it. The way I saw the theory and I am sure others feel the same is:
1. Objects such as photos, journals, etc can trigger a flashback where you can revisit a past moment. This is in effect time travel.
2. It would allow one with the ability to change their and those that is affected by their actions.
3. If one was to do something such as save someone from an accident upon coming out of the flashback. The time would have been fixed and the person would have lived and may or may not be alive still depending on weather or not they died since the flashback.
Where the movie goes wrong is it has now lost the need for photos or journals (point 1) and replaced it by the need of a dark bathroom with a bath of ice. This may be possible in their world given that it could induce a state that would allow the transportation into the previous moments/memories.
The movie is about a man who has the ability and uses it with the supervision of his sister to go to crime screens and witness them. He then sells the information claming to be a psychic. This goes against point 2/3 by moving ones self from ones pervious location they would change where they was before. Such as if one was buying food at the time of the murder and later revisited the moment and went to witness the crime, one would not have got food and would then need to still buy it and hence change the course of history. The first movie meant that every change (apart from the Jesus moment) always changed the time when they came out of it. The movie could provide a solution to this problem one being that his life is very boring and he does not change any events. The movie also fails by the fact everyone around him seems to know his ability and the common talk about these rules makes it more annoying than a pleasure to watch. The ending is well completely stupid with the murder unable to provide the information that they give at the time they gave it in the movie. He also breaks the ice rule at the end. Sorry if I have given to much information away I have tried to keep it as brief as possible. I would recommend the movie only to those who enjoy the theory. The movie is watchable and I would watch it again but is not a very believable story. One last point about the whole horror thing, these movies is better in my opinion to be thrillers not horrors, unless you can pull it off and in this case it really cannot. If you do watch the movie I hope you enjoy it as although I have complained a lot I did enjoy it and thought it was nice to go back into the Butterfly effects world.
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