Sorry, this movie sucks

The acting in this movie is really good.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Time After Time is directed by Nicholas Meyer. The film stars Malcolm McDowall, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen.This is a very interesting sci-fi thriller. I've always been curious about other time periods and am a big fan of time travel stories. In this film we get to see a characters reaction to arriving into what is for him a far distant future and how he reacts to what he finds there. Wells is overwhelmed by the advanced technology, the skyscrapers and lifestyle he encounters.Wells also learns that mankind has not advanced away from being violent, if anything violence has become more common in the future and has even lost shock value somewhat, due to how often violent acts occur now. It makes you realise that we can be advanced in some areas but still cannot get rid of violence. Perhaps we should focus more on getting rid of that impulse instead of focusing on creating new technology etc.London in 1893, novelist and inventor H.G Wells(Malcolm McDowall)builds a fully working time machine. Wells and some friends are shocked to discover that Jack the Ripper is one of their friends Dr. Stevenson(David Warner), Stevenson escapes into the future in the time machine. Wells decides to go after him to bring him back to face justice. Wells sees that the time machine has travelled to America in the year 1979. When the time machine takes him forward he discovers he's in the city of San Francisco. He begins his search for Stevenson.Wells is helped by Amy(Mary Steenburgen)who works in a bank and exchanges his British currency for him. The pair slowly begin to fall in love and Amy has to come to terms with the fact that Wells is from the past. Can Wells stop Stevenson and return him to his proper time?McDowall is excellent as the determined and bewildered Wells, David Warner is chilling as Stevenson, the scene where Stevenson explains to Wells that in the past he was a freak because of what he did, but here in the 70's he is an amateur is performed so well by both actors. Mary Steenburgen is very funny as Amy, the feisty woman who ends up embarking on quite an adventure. McDowall and Steenburgen fell in love while they made this and they married the following year.The film is a very good thriller and a great time travel story. My favourite scenes are where Wells go forward in time, the rotating restaurant scene and Wells chasing Stevenson through the hotel.There's many San Francisco locations featured in this film including the foyer of the Hyatt Regency Hotel(this also features in the Towering Inferno, High Anxiety and an episode of The Streets of San Francisco.)

A terrific premise: What if H.G. Wells really invented a time machine and Jack the Ripper escaped to the year 1979 in it? Great special effects sparingly used at the start and finish of the film, when the time machine "travels". My only complaint are the hidden "plugs" for the Hyatt-Regency Hotel chain. Even a dinner scene is filmed in their trademark "revolving restaurant" at "The Top of The Hyatt". A bit slow in building up the story. Does not take the cheap way out and does not become a slasher movie. Some blood and a few body parts. A young Mary plays a currency exchange employee. Naturally it's a "London Bank" in San Francisco. Both "The Ripper" and Wells exchange their antique gold coins there. There is a proverbial "game of chess" played between the two. Wells tries to alert the authorities and he gets arrested as the suspect in a string of murders. Using the name "Sherlock Holmes" makes him seem quite mad to the police. As usual, why "Jack the Ripper" is compelled to slash women remains a mystery. Great ending, as Wells returns to his own time and takes "the girl" back with him. They marry. More a love or adventure story than science fiction. Most enjoyable. Several "best" reviews do a wonderful synopsis of the plot. I won't attempt an improvement here. There is one question, however: How did the time machine first get there before Jack the Ripper arrived and how did it end up in San Francisco not London? There is a time paradox there. How the existing museum piece and the "real" machine manage to converge on the same timeline is never explained.

"Time After Time" is the sort of escapist fantasy that you just need to suspend disbelief in order to enjoy--and very enjoyable this film certainly is. Additionally, it's quite romantic and is a movie I strongly recommend you watch.The film begins in London during the time of Jack the Ripper (David Warner). Coincidentally, the famous writer H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) has just built a working time machine and the Ripper uses it to avoid being caught by the police. But Wells knows he cannot allow this maniac to escape and travels to 1979 in search of the murderer. There, Wells falls in love with a lady (Mary Steenburgen) and enlists her help to find the killer.This movie works for a variety of reasons. It's certainly one of McDowell's best performances and it's nice to see him being vulnerable and more multidimensional than his other famous roles (such as in "A Clockwork Orange"). The film also looks and sounds wonderful (with a lovely score by Miklós Rózsa) and is wonderfully directed by Nicholas Meyer. Well worth seeing and a rousing adventure that both men and women will likely enjoy.

Time After Time has Malcolm McDowell cast as the famous H.G. Wells who hasn't turned to writing yet, but is quite the scientist and has built the famous time machine he wrote about. It's peer into the future maybe see if and when the Utopia he thinks humankind is destined for comes about. It certainly hasn't in 1979 the year Wells travels to the future in San Francisco of that year. But Wells is on a more important mission. Using the machine before him was David Warner, a doctor friend of Wells and a convivial dining companion who happens to be the infamous Jack the Ripper. Wells means to bring him back to face British justice.Warner of course continues the activities which made him infamous. The challenge for Wells who represents the ultimate in civilization is does he have the right stuff to bring down a man who has become known in history as the incarnation of pure evil. Along the way we learn that Wells snatched his second wife from the future one Amy Robbins played by Mary Steenburgen. That was the maiden name of Wells's second wife, not that he was the most faithful of husbands. But she put up with his infidelities in real life and had a few of her own.Time After Time is based on an interesting notion produced well for the big screen. All three of the leads give great performances.As for Wells he remains optimistic though far more realistic.