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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Fantasy /
Sci-Fi
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Director:
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Richard Donner
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Actors:
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Matt Craven,
Michael Sheen,
Billy Connolly,
Steve Kahan,
Rossif Sutherland,
Paul Walker,
Frances O'Connor,
Gerard Butler,
David Thewlis,
Anna Friel,
Neal McDonough,
Ethan Embry,
Lambert Wilson,
Marton Csokas,
David La Haye
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Duration:
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111 min.
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Rating:
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(5.3/10)142
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Plot Summary:
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In the stomach of the beautiful and historically rich Dordogne Valley of France, a party of archeology students and their professor diligently work to uncover the ruins of a 14th-century castle. For Professor Edward Johnston, the project is the culmination of a lifelong mirage. Aided away assistant professor Andre Marek, his son Chris and students Kate, Stern and Fran?ois, Johnston has made major strides in unearthing not alone La Roque Fortress but also a monastery and structures from the surrounding village of Castlegard. But things are prevalent to lead haywire... Suspicious of the dig's b... acker, International Technology Corporation (ITC) and the gyves who runs it, Robert Doniger, Professor Johnston heads to ITC headquarters in Restored Mexico to get some answers, and while he's away, his students behold a chamber that has been sealed during more than 600 years. Marek and Kate sink into the unstable room, and precisely in front of a near disastrous cave-in, they make good two startling discoveries -- a bifocal lens, which couldn't have been invented before the chamber was sealed, and even more intriguing, a handwritten petition for help dated April 2, 1357...from Professor Johnston! Predetermined to solve the detective story, the students fore-part in favour of ITC headquarters, where they are stunned to learn of Doniger's up to date invention -- a shape that can in point of fact despatch three-dimensional objects into done with while. Although he meant for the device to revolutionize shipping, Doniger inadvertently opened a wormhole that leads to the 14th century, and Professor Johnston, who had insisted on experiencing the recognition himself, is things being what they are trapped in a immoral French vs. English feudal struggle! Can Johnston's steadfast students survive one of the most tempestuous battles in world history... and make it forsake to the 21st century alive?
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So bad I had to write about it!!
A historical adventure Sci-Fi based on a Michael Crichton novel with Richard Donner directing, it seemed to have most of the right ingredients! I actually missed this at the cinema (I was annoyed at the time but am now quite thankful!) so was really looking forward to watching the DVD. Imagine my disappointment then, when the film began racing ahead to the action, totally forgetting that it was balancing ever so precariously on a wafer-thin plot-line and mercilessly leaving what is possibly the worst cast ever assembled completely dazed and confused! After a very brief introduction of the characters and explanation of what?s going on (made all the worse by the deadpan cast who seemed to accept the ludicrous 'loophole in time' scenario far too easily), the film jumps headfirst int...
Timeline
The most exciting part of Timeline, Richard Donner's dud of a time-warp adventure, is the big, blazing balls of death hurled from the trebuchets, catapults used by medieval armies to hurl flaming orbs and the occasional poor soul at the enemy. No one gets catapulted during the climactic siege in Timeline, about travelers who leap from the 21st century back into a 14th century French battle. But not long after the movie opens, the desire to see this collection of clich??s and cardboard go hurtling through space becomes an irresistible itch.
Based on a book by Michael Crichton, and credited to screenwriters Jeff Maguire and George Nolfi, the story lumbers to a start after archeologist Edward Johnston (Billy Connolly) hitches a ride on a time machine.Built by the profes...
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