Clockstoppers

I had to see this movie. It was a plot-line I’d often fantisized about when I was young. I thought, wouldn’t that be great to have all the time in the world? I’d stop the clock for hundreds… maybe thousands of years and do all kinds of crazy stuff that would change the world as we know it. I knew this movie would be dumb, but I was sorry to see how dumb it was. At least now I know. Instead of doing something really creative or interesting with their new-found “power”, the main characters just use it for pointless pranks. The strange thing is how they don’t even see the time-stopping watch as a “big deal”, they treat it like a new video game or something, and pretty much continue with their lives as they were. Come on! an invention of that magnitude would blow-away anybody! A bunch of people complained about the physics of the movie (that it violates all kinds of laws). That didn’t really bother me, the premise necessitated some bending of the rules. It did bother me that the movie violated its own set of rules – near the end this happens a lot, plus there are a lot of scenes where I was squirming, “why don’t they just…”. Plus, the whole liquid-nitrogen thing was just stupid. Bottom line? Don’t bother seeing this movie.

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