The Time Shifters
The Time Shifters
PG-13 | 17 October 1999 (USA)
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Tom Merrick gets caught up in a time-traveling conspiracy and must set the timeline right before it is irrevocably altered.

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StunnaKrypto

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

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Protraph

Lack of good storyline.

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Huievest

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

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Sharkflei

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

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zsenorsock

When examining photos of some of the great disasters of the 20th century, a investigative reporter discovers a man who appears in several of the disasters--separated by decades, yet seemingly not aging a day. So he begins to investigate. When he chances upon the same man on a plane flight, things start happening. Unfortunately, this promising sci-fi idea quickly dissolves into a disappointing bore, thanks in great part to the wooden and dull acting of Casper Van Dien. Apparently he thought this was a photo shoot and never engaged the acting gear. The beautiful Catherine Bell is wasted as the love interest. Somewhere in here there's a pretty good idea, but its not worth watching the movie to dig it out.

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victorelu

Watching the movie last night on the TV i can surely make some remarks: Good beginning. It was entertaining the way that guy went through the disasters and appeared in the pictures.. it made you think about who is he and where does he come from. The part that he is a Thrill Seeker sucked. I am sure there could have been other ideas, better than that. I liked the love story between the main two characters and the general idea of going through the time. This is not the place to comment on the effects of going into time =>there are a lot of places where that can be discussed but in the general it was interesting. It was an enjoyable movie to watch although the ending was very predictable ( we don't like that now-a-days, do we? ) I give it a 5/10 as for encouraging but it could have been much better.

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damien-16

Zapping through the movie channels last evening, I came across: Next feature presentation: Thrill Seekers with Martin Sheen. I wonder if one could sue the channel for this kind of tendentious (but not factually wrong) publicity? Anyway, it made me decide to watch. Hardly any Martin Sheen, but entertaining for sure, and with surprisingly decent special effects for a TV movie. The plot is intelligent, and would be a good starting point to get people to discuss the paradoxes of time travel. Suppose you could go back and kill Hitler before he came to power, would you do it? But if you would, can you be certain nothing worse would happen? And how would it affect your own life? Would you still exist, even? (My parents met because of the war.) Or: if you go back to a time after you are born, can you meet yourself? All of this is hardly original, of course. SF writers in the golden age (which was sadly ended by Star Wars, shifting from intelligent writing to blockbuster special effects) frequently tackled the issue, for instance describing the butterfly effect: a firm organises time trips to the Jurassic, where thrill seeking (again!) hunters can kill a dinosaur a fraction of a moment before it would have died, thus not altering the time line. But one hunter stumbles and accidentally kills a butterfly. He gets back to his starting date, but the killed butterfly has changed the time line and this new line turns out to be the hunter's worst nightmare. Something similar happens in Thrill Seekers. But here the protagonist has the means to go back in time to change a future he has already experienced. This, of course, was already obvious from the moment they take the laptop from the disaster tourist. In fact, Merrick could have used that device to go back to before he boarded the plane and, using some kind of subterfuge, a bomb alarm for instance, avert the plane crash, and the subway crash, and the fire... But we wouldn't have had the same film then.One question of logic though. If Merrick goes back into his original time line, the time guards would also be in there, but unaffected by what will happen later. In the film, they follow Merrick back from the future. The film does not explain this. But the question doesn't end there. If you go back to when you were 3 hours earlier, you would also not yet have any memories of what was going to happen those next 3 hours. Merrick and the time guards should not have had any knowledge of the disaster happening 3 hours in the future.I also wonder how the title sequence relates to the film. I admit I wasn't paying a lot of attention, trying to figure out when Martin Sheen would be mentioned, but in retrospect I wonder if there wasn't any subtle message in the sequence?

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MacWWF16

The movie, "Thrill Seekers" AKA: "The Time Shifters" is such a suspenseful movie. This will keep you on the edge of your seat. This is actually one of the very few movies that is completely unpredictable. Casper Van Dien played excellent in this film!

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