Good concept, poorly executed.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I saw this movie when it came out and liked it, but wasn't blown away. Forgot about it honestly. I just watched it again 14 years later and I am floored. I can't believe I didn't get it the first time. Simple one of THE best movies I have ever seen. Hands down.

This might seem a cheesy plotline, but is actually very entertaining. To make things short, it's just what the title reveals; small changes, if you could do them; and who has not ever thought of what would had happened if you just kicked that horrible bully in the teeth/took that seemingly amazing opportunity/ stood back from taking a certain step, intervened when you never did, would have resulted in 20 years later? A better life, or a worse? In all its silliness, it's a damn entertaining movie.

This is 3.5 am in the night . I just finished this movie and honestly i never saw any movie like this. this is the movie for people who wanted to know the meaning of past,present and future.... the butterfly effect is real...here is the proof you are always creating your future, what you are doing right now creates your future .. for example if you smoking right now your future will we cancer or any lung diseases but in real life you cannot go back in time and fix it.. SO WHAT ARE YOUR DOING RIGHT NOW IS IMPORTANT AND IF YOU WANT A HAPPY LIFE . YOU SHOULD FULLY AWARE OF WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW . IN LAST ITS A MOST MOTIVATIONAL MOVIES I EVER WATCHED AND ADVICE EVERYONE TO WATCH IT ONCE IN HIS OR HER LIFE

Reviewed July 2011It does have an interesting premise and that's about it. The route they took to present this premise is totally off. So far this fantasy concept of alternate universe has mostly been dealt in the comedy genre with some exceptions like the movie Time Machine. When you are going for something serious, it should be a hard hitting subtlety than amateurish sensationalism. Evan (Ashton Kutcher) occasionally blacks out at times from his childhood and a doctor suggests him to maintain a journal to keep track of them. When he is older, he finds a way to travel back in time to those blackout periods and those were the moments that have changed his life. As I have already appreciated it's premise that has a decent potential, every single instance Evan goes and changes the past, the future turns out in the worst possible way or he manages to make it worse with his inexplicable actions. Everyone applies their worst possible judgment to any given scenario. The performances were OK which was more let down due to the scenarios they were in. The plot however bad it is, is woven quite well between the blackouts and the instances of future. Visual effects were just ordinary and the pace of the movie is quick. Another instance of a premise with potential fizzing out.