Time After Time, 1979. H.G. Wells chases Jack the Ripper to 1979. Written & directed by Nicholas Meyer. Story by Steve Hayes, based on a novel by Karl Alexander. Starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner & Mary Steenburgen.
Concept: 4/4 (Great)
Story: 1/4 (Bad)
Characters: 3/4 (Good)
Dialog: 3/4 (Good)
Pacing: 1/4 (Bad)
Cinematography: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Special effects/design: 3/4 (Good). Very good design, bad effects.
Acting: 3/4 (Good)
Music: 3/4 (Good)
Subjective Rating: 5/10 (Indifferent, 2/4). If only it had been the chess game that the movie's own recurring metaphor wants to believe it is. In the few parts where it lets itself be the suspenseful thriller it should be, it's quite good. But for the most part, it's an implausible, tedious love story. Hard to believe this was written by the same guy behind the best Star Trek movies.
Objective Rating (Average): 2.5/4 (Okay)
And that's the end of another Very Slow Marathon. But did we win the marathon? That is what everyone wants to know, right? Well, the movies were, on average, pretty damn mediocre. Subjective ratings: 5.4/10; Objective ratings: 2.2/4. It's ever so slightly on the positive side of the scale, though, so yes. We win. But it was close.
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