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| | Slant Magazine - Film Review: Timeline |
 | | Millionaire industrialist Robert Doniger (David Thewlis), owner of the generically named International Technology Corporation, has discovered a way to time-travel, and after the leader of an archeological team, Professor Johnson (Billy Connolly), is lost in the past during one of Doniger's experiments, the rest of the Professor's group are sent back to find him. |
 | | But instead of dramatizing this confusion and thereby locating a thoughtful insecurity within the usual blood-and-muscle framework of action films, the characters' bewilderment comes across as unfocused and weak thanks to a narrative that meanders ferociously and performances which smack of community theater. |
 | | On the other hand, whatever is redeeming about the film's more "realistic" action is scrambled by the ham-fisted performances of its leads, particularly Paul Walker as Professor Johnson's son, and Frances O'Connor as Kate, dedicated researcher and love interest. |
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