A group of archaeologists become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve a friend. The group must survive in 14th century France before they can escape back to the 21st Century.
A time travel always changes the present. When a group of archeologists go back in the year 1357 on a rescue mission they find themselves in the middle of a war between the English and the French troops. They try to return to the present safely altogether.
I get the feeling this was probably a decent story in book-form (I didn't read it), but translated to film, I'm afraid its a flop. The director fails to establish a decent rhythm or to get you to care about any of the characters. Everything is loud and forced, with a bombastic music score to presumably help cover up the huge gaps in logic. I have liked some of the actors in earlier roles, but I'm sorry to say none are shown to advantage here. Frances O'Connor overacts all of her scenes at an intensity level about 10 degrees too high, becoming really irritating before the first 15 minutes have passed. Paul Walker is so wooden and lackluster he makes the past standard bearer of bad actors, Keanu Reeves, look like Sir Alec Guinness. I sure hope he's using some of the money he's raking in now to sign up for acting classes (and voice training!). Chalk up another loser for director Richard Donner, whose career has been a monument to mediocrity.
I was really looking forward to seeing this film after having read the book. I know that the film is never as good as the book but this one fell seriously short my lowest expectations. Some of the plot changes were necessary for simplification but the elimination of all the interesting and strong female characters was a huge let down. Furthermore the character development was almost completely non-existent another 20 minutes of film would have allowed the director to develop the characters properly without making the film more than two hours long. The film was well acted and had the potential to be very good but the characters were flat and the excitement from the book was completely missing.
Donner's most calamitous mistake, however, was forgetting to light the screenplay on fire and catapult it from the nearest trebuchet.
There are 10 people who traveled in time; this is what happened to each of them:<br/><br/>Chris, Kate &amp; Chris&#39; father, prof. Johnston all make it back to 2003 safely.<br/><br/>Frank Gordon: Gets a sword in the chest from De Kere and is left for dead when he is cut loose from the wagon.<br/><br/>François: Gets killed by one of Lord Olliver&#39;s aides-de-camps; also via a sword in the chest (They think he&#39;s a spy sent by Lord Arnaud).<br/><br/>Gomez: Gets too many arrows in his chest from an English archer as soon as the group gets to 1357. He is left for dead.<br/><br/>Baretta: Blows himself up with his own grenade as he hits his marker, thus he dies in 2003 (He also blows up the time machine).<br/><br/>Decker/De Kere: Dies in the battle of La Roque when the French army attack the castle.<br/><br/>André Marek: Chooses to remain in 1357 and get married to Claire.<br/><br/>Doniger: Steps into the time machine as Chris, Kate &amp; Prof Johnston are coming back to the present. He gets his neck slashed by a knight&#39;s sword as soon as he gets to 1357.
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