The Butterfly Effect, an almost forgotten movie now, was a underrated thriller that asked what would happen if you changed a single aspect of your life. Would things be better? Or, would they be worse? The answers, it seems, was both. In that case a young man discovered that changing the past was never as easy as one might think.
Sam Reide (Chris Carmack) will discover this to own cost. Years ago his girlfriend Rebecca was murdered and her killer never caught. Since then Sam has worked with the police in helping solve unsolved crimes. Using the ability to jump back in the past to observe the crime taking place, Sam is able to see things that no one else can. With his friend Goldberg (Kevin Yon) advising him on the risks involved with such changes to the time line, Sam feels that he can do almost anything.
Almost. Years ago his sister Jenna (Rachel Miner) was killed in a fire. Sam went back to change that event only to save her but in doing so his parents died. Since then he has been hesitant to change his own past simply because it cost him so much the last time he did it.
Rebecca comes back into his life in the form of her sister Elizabeth (Sarah Habel) who shares with him that there was more to her sister's life than Sam knew. Using the information given to save the life of the man convicted of her murder, Sam decides to do what he knows he should do and change his own past. As with the first Butterfly Effect, and the less than impressive sequel, things go wrong. Not only does Sam not discover who Rebecca's murderer is but he also "creates" a serial killer who murders other women as well. Murders that eventually point back to Sam in that each were women that ended up having connection with him. Not only does Sam have to solve Rebecca's murder but now he has to stop a killer and save his own innocence. The problem is also that the present itself changes each time he jumps back so he awakens in a new reality with a new crisis every time he tries to save someone.
Unlike the first Butterfly Effect the third ends with predictable situation which anyone could guess was coming. The only problem with this is that it lacks the suspense the original had. Sam can jump back in an adult form while Aston Kutcher's character, in the first Butterfly Effect, had to relive the event from whatever age he was during the jump. Kutcher's character also could only appear to change events in his own past and not those of strangers. This changes the series but not too much. However, Revelation is still a worthy attempt to continue a series that has much promise despite the low budget movies that have taken over the series.
7/10
Sam Reide (Chris Carmack) will discover this to own cost. Years ago his girlfriend Rebecca was murdered and her killer never caught. Since then Sam has worked with the police in helping solve unsolved crimes. Using the ability to jump back in the past to observe the crime taking place, Sam is able to see things that no one else can. With his friend Goldberg (Kevin Yon) advising him on the risks involved with such changes to the time line, Sam feels that he can do almost anything.
Almost. Years ago his sister Jenna (Rachel Miner) was killed in a fire. Sam went back to change that event only to save her but in doing so his parents died. Since then he has been hesitant to change his own past simply because it cost him so much the last time he did it.
Rebecca comes back into his life in the form of her sister Elizabeth (Sarah Habel) who shares with him that there was more to her sister's life than Sam knew. Using the information given to save the life of the man convicted of her murder, Sam decides to do what he knows he should do and change his own past. As with the first Butterfly Effect, and the less than impressive sequel, things go wrong. Not only does Sam not discover who Rebecca's murderer is but he also "creates" a serial killer who murders other women as well. Murders that eventually point back to Sam in that each were women that ended up having connection with him. Not only does Sam have to solve Rebecca's murder but now he has to stop a killer and save his own innocence. The problem is also that the present itself changes each time he jumps back so he awakens in a new reality with a new crisis every time he tries to save someone.
Unlike the first Butterfly Effect the third ends with predictable situation which anyone could guess was coming. The only problem with this is that it lacks the suspense the original had. Sam can jump back in an adult form while Aston Kutcher's character, in the first Butterfly Effect, had to relive the event from whatever age he was during the jump. Kutcher's character also could only appear to change events in his own past and not those of strangers. This changes the series but not too much. However, Revelation is still a worthy attempt to continue a series that has much promise despite the low budget movies that have taken over the series.
7/10