An absolutely delightful blend of adventure, romance, time-travel, comedy, and Victorian horror. Some clunky plotting around the third act prevents this from getting full marks, but it's still first-rate storytelling and a strong debut from director Nicholas Meyer.

A shallow movie with a silly love story, could only watch half the movie, nothing thrilling, exciting or interesting to hold on to.

copy of 1960 movie rip off badly done

A romantic perspective of the time travel, naive and childish, but with a good premise. I don't hate it.

I'm not crazy about the love story, but its a mostly entertaining piece of science fiction pulp. Malcolm McDowell and David Warner shine in their perspective roles of H.G. Wells and Jack the Ripper.

This is one of my all-time favorite movies! Malcolm McDowell, and Mary Steenburgen were so good at this! And I don't remember the bad guy's name, but he was so good too. I would watch this again!

It didn't work for me and seemed like something I would have loved.

When Jack the Ripper (David Warner) hops into H.G. Wells' (Malcolm McDowell) time machine and evades police by transporting himself to 1979 San Francisco, Wells quickly follows but finds himself distracted from his attempts to apprehend the killer when he falls for Amy (Mary Steenburgen). Time After Time is a thriller. It's a romance. It's a sci-fi film. Each of the individual genres work on their own terms, but when combined they eventually manage to take the wind out of the sails of the film. The sci-fi elements kill the romance angle. The romance angles kill the thrills. And the cycle just keeps repeating itself. It is entertaining enough and is an interesting idea, but could and should have been so much better. And, as a footnote, the limited special effects are embarrassingly bad.

It's too dumb for sci-fi and too lackluster to be compellingly entertaining. This movie just plain and simply has too many dumb plot contrivances and holes. Yes-yes, its synopsis practically screams that it isn't trying to be an intricate thriller. But there are too many straws on this dead camel for it to not become apparent that the script is just winging it, thinking that its concept will cover all the stupid stuff in it. From kill-switches outside the time machine that serve no purpose other than to be used in the finale, to a woman roofing herself while a serial killer is out to get her, to the police conveniently not sending a squad to an address given to them by a suspect because, obviously, the woman there cannot be in danger, only to release the suspect when they eventually find a chopped up body there. It is infuriatingly dumb and transparent. Soundtrack is incredible and does not let the movie down. McDowell and Warner do play off each other very well. And it's a delight to watch them together, but those scenes are sparse. One who is not sparse is Mary Steenburgen. There must be something wrong with me because every word from this woman's mouth was akin to a block of chalk being smashed into a whiteboard. Horrible accent, leading to just annoying acting and character. However, the charm of the high concept is undeniable. Regardless of the fact that these are very basic bitch interpretations of H.G. Wells and Jack. Are you seriously going to pretend Wells was a prude? He bred like a rabbit.

Time after time was one of the very first films that left an impression since my early childhood. Years later I acquired the Dvd to add to my collection of favorites. A story about time travel using famous historical figures can't get much better than this. Fantastic cast members were transformed to fit each role perfectly. Its a Sci Fi thriller , murder mystery with added Romance ,suspense incorporated with historical events of Jack the Ripper and HGWell's life work. I was glued to the edge of my seat the entire time awaiting its conclusion. This is a film you don't want to miss . Its truly a timeless Masterpiece fun to rewatch for generations to come.

Totally weird but innovative!

It appears I have stumbled across another Twilight Zone-esque film. Once again this feels more like an extended episode of said show (or many similar shows) which isn't necessarily a bad thing but...it's hard to get away from thinking that. Twas directed by [i]Star Trek's[/i] Nicholas Meyer though, one of his earlier offerings, which I found intriguing. The Plot: It's pretty straight forward. Famous British science-fiction writer H.G. Wells has invented a time machine. Around the same time the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper is on the loose in London. One evening as Wells entertains dinner guests police knock on the door. It appears the Ripper has struck again and might be in the vicinity. After some investigating it appears that one of Wells dinner guests could be the Ripper. But before you can say 'he's gonna escape in the time machine'...he escapes in the time machine. The Ripper sends himself into the distant future of 1979 and it now falls on Wells to go after him and bring him back to face justice. What follows is your typical out of time adventure as the British gentleman from 1893 must navigate San Francisco circa 1979 to find the hideous Victorian killer. Obviously despite the fact this film uses real historic people the story itself is completely fictional (duh). But I did like how Meyer fit this fantasy into a realistic timeline. I should quickly point out that Meyer's screenplay and this film is actually based on an actual book of the same name and year (1979). As I was saying, the film takes place in 1893, two years before Wells would actually write his famous time-travelling story in 1895. Thusly in this film Wells invents the time machine for real, has his chaotic adventure, and then follows it up by writing the story. As for the chaotic time-travelling adventure, well it's a tad predictable and tame really. Wells is portrayed by a young Malcolm McDowell who, unfortunately, doesn't really pull it off in my opinion. For starters he doesn't really look the part with an obviously fake moustache, blonde hair, and he's far too slim both in stature and face. Secondly he comes across as a complete drip frankly, not that I know anything about the real Wells as a young man but McDowell's performance felt so soft and timid. On the other hand there are plenty of nice little touches from McDowell such as examining surfaces made out of new materials (to him). Trying to work out how to open a car door. Trying to understand the difference in 1979 speech patterns etc...I like that he struggled to get along for a time and had to sell bits and pieces of his attire to raise cash for food. That felt like people had actually thought about this instead of some stupid easy get-out clause (like him meeting a hot girl straight away who just takes him in and looks after him). On the flip side the Ripper (David Warner) conveniently doesn't seem to have the same issues, that we see anyway. Maybe it's because he's the villain but things don't really seem to faze him as much. He seems more intent on continuing his killing streak in this new futuristic world. This was something that bugged me because why would he do that? I get that he's a psycho but he managed to escape from his murderous past and obvious eventual presumable capture and has given himself a fresh new start. Yet he gets straight back to killing again which would presumably land him right back in the same eventual outcome, capture and imprisonment. Many serial killers are supposed to be quite intelligent, apparently. Well this doesn't come across as a logical move to me, surely he'd be amazed by the future and wanting to discover more about that? I dunno. Time travel is of course a very hard subject to tackle because who knows how one might react to a whole new world with new inventions. Especially from someone in our distant past because with basic things (to us now) like plastics, travel, architecture, communication etc...would be mind-blowing to them. It might not be too bad for people in our present going forward because we would be more likely to adapt to greater technology, maybe. Have to mention the casting of Mary Steenburgen as Wells love interest here. In all honesty her performance isn't exactly ground-breaking but it's the circumstance that's interesting. In this film she plays a 20th-century woman who falls in love with a man from the past and eventually follows him back in time. In 1990 Steenburgen played a character from the past who falls in love with a man from the future and eventually follows him into the future ('Back to the Future III'). There are many things in this film that are quite quaint these days. The main factor of course being the distant future being 1979, one year after I was born. This naturally makes [b]everything[/b] incredibly dated to the point of hilarity whilst watching. The outfits David Warner wears in some scenes are priceless. The young girl wearing literal transparent trousers in front of Wells was bizarre as I've never seen that before myself. The fact that the US banks were happy to exchange British currency from the 1800's! Really?? All the cars and technology we see throughout the film. I also liked the obvious visual homage to the 1960's time machine with this film's time machine. Actually I thought this offering was better and had more of a sensible look really. This time machine actually had a little pod you sat in that would protect you from any possible dangerous effects of travelling through time. The fact the time machine in the old 1960's version was essentially an open sled always bugged me. So anyway the film predictably moves along and we watch the Ripper kill various women only to eventually kidnap Wells love interest in order to obtain a special key from him. Said key is one of two special functions on the time machine. This key stops the machine from automatically going back to its time of origin, which would result in any time traveller being stranded. Without said key the machine won't go at all, I think. Not really sure why anyone would build this function into your machine. The same could be said for the second key. Apparently when you remove this important key it sends the time traveller hurtling into time and space and unable to be saved. This was something I still can't quite get my head around. I assume you have to be in the machine for this to work, but I don't get how the removal of this key sends you into oblivion. And again, why would you build this into your machine?? Seems dangerous. Anywho overall this film is an enjoyable little time-travelling romp that any time-travelling 온라인카지노추천 series would be happy to showcase during its run. Admittedly this film would merely be seen as generic time-travelling filler for any 온라인카지노추천 series, I mean there's nothing ground-breaking here to be honest. It's a very simple story with a very simple outcome that could be retooled for any number of characters from any number of time periods. Think along the lines of 'Quantum Leap' I guess.

Very well done. Good effects for the time. HG Wells chases Jack the Ripper after he steals his time machine and heads for the future.

An utterly (post)modern throwback, appropriately enough, to midcentury sci-fi hokum, as cheesy as it is charming.

Though heavily dated with special effects that do not hold up well, this was a fun mix of out of time comedy with a cat and mouse thriller thrown in. I really enjoyed this movie when it first came out and still have fun with it today. What a great idea to mix H.G. Wells and Jack the Ripper, who would have ever thought that would work so well? A great 70's mashup.

Great 70s time traveling classic!

Nicholas Meyer was and has been a gifted filmmaker. The man created two of the best Star Trek films and Time After Time fits the mould of his filmmaking style nicely. It's a funny film dressed as a thriller, with a giant splash of high concept. H.G Welles vs Jack the Ripper, who would've thought? The film is assisted by a great cast and they all add to the film. It's easy to dismiss this film based on the concept, but I was pleasantly surprised by the campy fun. This is a bona fide cult gem and I only wish more people invest in the premise. Strong film and one of those rare films that maintains the pacing. 09/03/2020

Despite a great cast and a wonderfully fun plot, the movie is horribly written with shockingly bad dialogue and forced romance that never quite makes the landing. The film itself has no real logic or sense to its time travel and everything feels like a first attempt/draft rather than a fully realized vision.

The idea for Time After Time was amazing, and the first act of setup was brilliant. Sure there were some logical things that didn’t exactly make sense when Wells is explaining the time machine, but in the long run I didn’t care because it all had a purpose in the plot (even if it was illogical.) The way that the story starts out so quickly and has such a clear motivation for the main characters, it clicked into place and I was having a great time. It was humorous watching as this man out of his own time learned how the modern world worked and how to get what he needed to track down Jack. I thought Malcolm McDowell was extremely well-cast as the distinguished H.G. Wells. He had a real innocence to his portrayal that fit a man from a more polite time. David Warner was also delightful as his antagonist. The way that he seeks to blend in instead of remaining true to his past self gave a nice personality contrast between the two characters without saying a word. And then there was Mary Steenburgen. To say she was miscast is only the start of the problems. She is doing some odd things with her performance to the point that I thought she was drunk or high for part of the film. What started out as this exciting chase through time, with a metaphorical chess match going on between the main characters, devolved into an odd romance. All that potential it started with was squandered because they decided to turn it into Somewhere in Time. Then it got really strange, and they made pointless choices. McDowell and Steenburgen started acting like their hands were tied by the constraints of time when they have access to a time machine! Finally the end had some surprise and tension which I was missing. It’s just that long middle section of the film that hurts Time After Time and keeps it from being a great film.

Found this film interesting with H.G. Wells constructing a time machine, which is used by Jack the Ripper to move to the year 1979 to continue his killing spree after his identity is discovered in his own time.