The Butterfly Effect - Director's Cut

Amazing movie

This is easily one of the best and most original films I have ever seen. It tells the story of a group of childhood friends who go to university. Whilst at university, the lead character (Kutcher) begins to read his childhood diaries, and notices something very odd. Whenever he reads them, he falls into a trance, then suddenly finds himself back at the exact moment in his childhood refered to in the diary entry. But there is something even more interesting. If he takes a certain course of action in this state that differs from what he did historically, when he returns to the present day, things have changed dramatically. For example in one sequence, he returns to find his troubled college friend has become a wholesome and popular girl. In another episode, he returns to find that she has become a drug addicted prostitute. Once he discovers he has this ability, he then deliberately reads painful episodes from his childhood diary so that he can return to them and 'set things straight'. However, he soon finds that everytime he does this, no matter what he does, there is almost always something very bad that has happened in the future as a result. In the worst incident, he finds himself in prison wrongly accused of murder, and being sexually bullied by two larger inmates. This film is very powerful, and touches on a very deep human desire to be able to go back and do things differently. Highly recommended.

I'm not going to say much everyone knows it is a masterclass movie

It doesn't usually happen when a movie is still on my mind the next day (unless they're truly awesome or painfully awful), but this is one of them movies. And not because it's awful. It's touching and makes you think about your own life and what would it would be like now if 'I'd done that' or 'if that hadn't of happened to me'. Ashton Kutcher plays Evan Treborn. He is not my favourite actor but put in a really exceptional performance for this, as did all the other actors/actresses. The child stars also shone. It dealt with serious issues such as animal torture *SPOILER ALERT* A boy burns a dog alive, child abuse *SPOILER ALERT* A father forces a child Evan Treborn to have sex with his daughter while he films it, but it was all handle tastefully so we didn't actually see any of it. And every time Evan went back into his past, I was on the edge-of-my-seat to see how it changed his future. I simply loved this movie and will not be selling it at my next local car boot sale.

first it's gripping to get into the story, then somewhere along the line, it gets real messed up but in a fantastic way. So actor ashton is a little boy who keeps having black outs, that goes on for abit at the beggining intil a freak accident happens. After that he's say 21years old in college, doing college things, doesn't get black outs no more either. Then he finds these old journels he used to write when he was alittle one, having black outs. Whenever he reads them, he can go back to when he was just about to have a black out as alittle one, but the only difference is he doesn't have a black out now, and he controls the little version of him to change the past. Ofcourse if you change the past, you change the future, so he awakens as the 21year old in different situations, so he keeps going back into time to change the future intil it's how it used to be again. Gripping stuff. 5stars for me, and ashton is surprisingly really good in it.

This film is very cleverly put together and requires some concentration. Ashton Kutcher is the main character Evan(also in Just married) and has always been close to Kayleigh (Amy Smart also in Road trip). As a child he suffers from blackouts and does not know what has happened to him. When he is older at college he discovers that he can travel back in time to where he had blackouts, (not by a time machine by the way). He discovers the horrific traumatic events that happened to him in his blackouts and trys to repair them but each time he alters something it has a caotic effect (caos theory - butterfly effect, butterfly fluttering its wings can cause a hurricane a million miles away hence the title of the film) and it messes up someones life. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is easily horrified or is sensitive about disturbing events to young children but in the end things are sorted out so some events never happen. If you saw this film in the cinema be warned as the director's cut has a completely different ending which i found much more disturbing. The original cinema version is missing from the discs although there are other alternate endings. If you want thrilling entertainment I suggest you buy this film.

**CONTAINS ALTERNATIVE ENDING SPOILERS** Evan, played by Ashton Kutcher, goes through childhood experiencing strange black outs, and is advised to keep a journal. When he is older he realises he can "go back in time" to those occasions just by reading those parts of his journal. He deliberately chooses to go back to pivotal moments so that he can try and adjust the future - for his troubled friend Kayleigh (Amy Smart) in particular. So far so "believable" - so far as a film goes. I was happy enough to "believe" in Groundhog Day, Big, and The Time Travellers Wife etc. What made me so uncomfortable watching The Butterfly Effect was firstly: the unpleasant violence and aggression. Lenny, Kayleigh's brother, is a caricature of a young psychopath - I found it impossible to believe he wouldn't have been institutionalised. The creepy rapist guys in prison (surely lifted straight out of The Shawshank Redemption), the fat miserable kid, the doc in the white coat, the girl next door - they are all comic strip characters, and I couldn't believe in any of them for a moment. As for Ashton, I don't know if it was because of his strange stick-on looking beard, but I failed to understand a word he was saying, he mumbled so much. Second sticking point: I thought the acting of the entire cast was pretty dire, although Amy Smart made a valiant effort as did the ever reliable Eric Stoltz as the abusive father of Lenny and Kayleigh. Only the fact I had paid for the DVD, and occasional flashes of black humour, kept me watching to the end. Then I discover I have been watching the Director's Cut, and curiosity takes me to wiki to find out the alternative endings (as they are NOT all on "deleted scenes"). Here's one: after realising Kayleigh stayed with her abusive father to be near him, Evan deliberately alienates her so that she moves to live with her mother and therefore has a happy future for herself and brother. The other endings (as "deleted scenes") are just Evan and Kayleigh meeting when passing in street. Minus stick-on beard, obviously vastly improving his chances of happiness.

Ive always liked this movie. Advice. Watch the DC, it's much more a complete movie. This movie demands two things. An acceptance of its artistic license. And repeat views. Watching this movie more than once will open up new ideas about what's going on Is TBC a love story, sci-fi. Who cares? It's a vvg film that sadly still remains unknown It gets a lot of bad reviews. In my view it's a totally brilliant movie that sucks the viewer into the movies thesis. I won't give any of the plot away and just leave it to the viewer to make up their own mind TBC is extremely original. It's extremely watchable. The bluray picture is too notch Who can ask for more Apart from, just don't watch the theatrical version. Ive no idea why this version was released as its incomplete