HG Wells' classic tale is remade, this time round it's Guy Pierce as our time-travelling hero who travels far into a post-apocalyptic future to a world with naive race of people living above ground and vicious Morlocks who hunt them from their underground home, leading our time traveller to choose whether to help or Return to his own time!
The movie starts a a well made Victorian period piece with professor Hartdegen, a genius scientist who after the tragic death of his sweetheart becomes obsessed with time travel and saving her.
But he soon finds he can't and decides to travel forward and discover why.
After visiting several future times, where he meets a hologram in a library providing us with done information and that while trying to colonise the moon it has been damaged and is causing an apocalyptic event on earth.
80,000 years into the future he discovers a slightly primitive civilisation who live a naive existence with the constant threat of the subterranean Morlocks!
The first half of the movie is really good, solid script, and good performance, but the later half falls into the CGI trap and relies too much on this to provide the action, and Jeremy Iron's uber-morlock who controls the rest with telepathy, but resorts to a basic and boring fist fight aboard the time machine. It feels like the movie just got away from them them a little and the spirit of the original was slightly lost and you are left with the same thought as out titular hero
Hartdegan: "You're forgetting one thing. What if?"
Guy Pierce's performance is pitch perfect and even Samantha Mumba was watchable. but he final act leaves a slightly bitter taste in the mouth.
I would recommend watching the original first and then viewing this. Still its an enjoyable enough watch.
6/10
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