i try not to be too influence by what movie critic write about the new release but probably do listen more than i will admit to . however and i still rent out this movie and thinking that be base on a michael crichton novel and it can not be that bad . but here be one movie that deserve it awful reputation . be it the horrible horrible acting . be it the historical inaccuracy . be it the gap hole in the very predictable plot . well yes . pretty much . all of these reason make timeline an often hilarious yet ultimately dreadful view experience . the plot centre around the transportation of an archaeology professor ( billy connelly ) back to 1357 and during the middle of the england or france 100yr war . it be down to his team of young excavator and his unenthusiastic son and chris ( paul walker ) to go back and bring him home . france o connor and a the professor assistant kate and in particular stand out for one of the most hammy and immature female portrayal i have ever see . you want to try and blame it on the script but even that can not be excuse for her over dramatic and pi55 poor performance that make paul walker appear to be oscar worthy and which of course he isn not . i would suggest that if walker do want to be take seriously a an actor and which he have state more than once in many interview and he would be best to choose his film a lot more carefully . here and he do not prove that he can handle lead a film . in fact and he himself seem embarrass and pull all kind of face a he hide behind the other character in the shadow . anna friel be yet another woefully miscast actress and who take the role of french lady claire . now and maybe it be because i grow up watch her a lipstick lesbian beth jordache in liverpool soap brookside and but a a french graduate and i certainly be able to say that her accent be pitiful and incredibly stereotypical . maybe and to make it easy for her to grasp and they only give her a few basic line in french such a allez and allez and then suddenly her knowledge of the english language suddenly improve tenfold and her accent come and go in spasm . why oh why can the producer not hire authentically french actor . most of them speak good english than the brit do french . add to this the complexity in the development of the british and french language and we have many horrible historical inaccuracy . they simply do not speak the same language that be speak today . i be not even goose to mention billy connelly humiliate role a an incompetent and dawdling professor that surely rank a his personal career low . it be enough to say that this film be pure trash and to watch it would be deprive yourselves of 2 hour when you could be put out rubbish and poke your eye out with a needle or fantasise over martina navratilova .