if you love the early 60 version of the time machine and do not waste your time while a with last year the planet of the ape and this have be reimagined and and not for the good . and and just a with planet . and it lead actor be woefully miscast and leaden while guy pearce and a terrific actor of great range and be all wrong for this role and give a one note performance that elicit zero sympathy while he so dour and serious and and lack in awe of the ( supposedly ) amaze thing he see that you do not believe for a moment that he experience them . bad yet and whose idea be it for him to resemble the love child of david spade and calista flockhart . a handsome actor and here he be sickeningly gaunt and which be and believe it or not and a major distraction . frankly and the man look gravely ill and be photograph cruelly . he share absolutely no chemistry with anyone on the screen and a direct result of a performance that be out of sync with anyone else . sadly and even with a proper lead man this movie doesn not stand a chance for it be fatally burden with both a totally inept director whole scene go nowhere and be poorly realize and a screenplay that be utterly inferior and scattered and at time incoherent not for a single moment do you care about anyone in this film and for the single fact that there be nothing in the way of character development . in the original and you get to know the eloi and so therefore you felt for them and and felt their terror of the morelocks while here and a the movie stress several time and they be nothing but sheep and act accordingly . unless youre a member of peta and scared sheep be hardly the stuff of entertainment . samantha mumba do as well a possible and in her movie debut and but and like everyone else in this mess and most especially jeremy iron ( if he the leader of the morelocks [ who look like reject from the mummy return ] and why then do he look like edgar winter long lose brother . ) be completely waste . also waste be the money spend on the endless pecial effect and which belie the $ 70m spend on the film while they be uniformly lackluster and obvious and unconvincing . and then there the look of the film represent poorly photograph and it art direction and set be just there and it costume be typical in design . there isn not an original thought or idea express behind or on the screen . most of all and it isn not even fun . ( the filmmaker use the now ubiquitous orlando jones a comic relief but and a usual and jones be irritate and and just how do his electrically drive character survive in a world seemingly devoid of electricity . ) all in all and this be an empty and lifeless and dull and sterile and confused affair represent do not they already remake planet of the ape . ( at least that have the fortune of some strong performance . ) spoiler . the final insult ( beyond a head shakingly terrible and not to mention convenient and end ) . not only do they barely feature the change dress store figure and they make even the time machine itself an anachronistic and gaudy glass n chrome bore . ( if the soprano have a time machine and this be exactly what it would look like . ) pathetic .