2002 · sci-fi · adventure · action
The Time Machine
Directed by Simon Wells1h 36m2002
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
Our read: The Time Machine (2002) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · adventure · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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