The Reviews for The Butterfly Effect are in√¢‚Ǩ¬¶ and while they aren’t the worst I’ve seen, they’re still not pretty. I’ve been saying this for a long time: “Ashton Kutcher is not a legitimate Hollywood leading man”. I will never understand for the life of me why he gets so much media attention when he clearly can not carry a film. To date his biggest accomplishment in the entertainment world is dating Demi Moore. Hats off to him, I wish I was in his shoes!
Here’s a rundown of what the critics are saying via Yahoo Movies:
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| Source | Brief Review |
Grade* | |||
| Atlanta Journal-Constitution Bob Longino |
“…nobody associated with making this movie can possibly emerge unscathed.” more… |
D+ | |||
| Boston Globe Ty Burr |
“A film of singularly boneheaded conceits…” |
D | |||
| Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert |
“I enjoyed The Butterfly Effect, up to a point. That point was reached too long before the end of the movie.” |
C+ | |||
| Chicago Tribune Mark Caro |
“Kutcher delivers a credibly serious performance…” |
C+ | |||
| E! Online |
“By the end, its ridiculous wackiness will have you clutching your seat–no, not in suspense, but to control your laughter.” |
C- | |||
| filmcritic.com Norm Schrager |
“The Ashton Kutcher crowd (and you know who you are) will probably love this film.” |
B- | |||
| New York Post Lou Lumenick |
“The Butterfly Effect…is so consistently silly and overwrought that it flirts with the elusive so-bad-it’s-entertaining category.” |
C- | |||
| New York Times Dave Kehr |
“…staggeringly bad.” |
F | |||
| ReelViews James Berardinelli |
“…a compelling and intriguing movie…” |
B | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle |
“In its own ridiculous way, The Butterfly Effect is an entertaining movie…” more… |
C+ | |||
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker |
“The metaphysics are fuzzy at best and just plain sloppy the rest of the time…” more… |
C- | |||
| USA Today Mike Clark |
“…the actor (Kutcher) is far less interesting than Effect‘s concept, which in turn is far more interesting than witnessing its botch of an execution.” more… |
C | |||
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