The Butterfly Effect (2004) 8/10

Starring : Ashton Kutcher, Melora Walters, Amy Smart, Elden Henson, William Lee Scott
Director : Eric Bress & J Mackye Gruber
Running Time : 110 mins

Evan Treborn (Kutcher) has suffered from black outs since he was very young, and has tried in later life to get over his spells which seemed to have occurred at moments of stress. As he gets older and looks through his blackout diaries, he discovers he is able to go back to the points where he had blackouts and actually affect the future and change it – but depending on what he does, this tends largely to change for the worse…

This movie surprised me by actually being good. Kutcher plays every version of Evan differently, which makes for an intriguing and continually changing performance, and the supporting cast – mainly Smart and Henson – make their also differing roles something to behold. Well worth watching, although I hear the sequel is terrible.

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