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The Butterfly Effect (2004)
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Movie Review by Seth C 
October 9th, 2006
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"The Butterfly Effect" is a very successful suspense thriller, constantly throwing twists at us that are all believable, not to mention exciting. The film is also a successful film as it continues to changes it's storyline, yet remains in tact with it's purpose and offers a good bit of character development, especially in that of it's hero Evan, played by "That 70s Show's" Ashton Kutcher. The acting chops of Kutcher and fellow co-star Amy Smart may be the only flaws I see in the film and that may not be completely their fault.
In some scenes, mainly the first scene in which Evan revisits his old friend, Smart's Kayleigh, it seems maybe it wasn't so much the actor's inabilities that brought me out of the story for that brief moment, as much as it may have been the below par dialogue from the writing and directing team of Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber. It's seems an easy out to say that Kutcher's performance is deadpan because we're so use to looking at him as the boy with the idiot smile, yet to-die-for good looks that is Michael Kelso on "That 70s Show." Yet in later scenes of "The Butterfly Effect" it seems as if Kutcher outshines all those around him and delivers a solid, career high performance. As for Amy Smart, she's never really proved herself to me during the film.
In the end, however, "The Butterfly Effect" is a really sometimes terrifying, sometimes sad, yet always intriguing film that I feel will be overlooked by too many. The way director's Bress and Gruber seem to transform every scenario Evan gets himself into with a different feel almost makes the audience, or at least me, believe the film looked different than it did the scene prior. However, after trying to pay attention to any difference in the film's look, whether it was grainier or clearer than before, I came to the conclusion no tricks were used in creating a new world feel. It was just excellent filmmaking.
- SCF / August '04
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