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The critics hated it, but it worked just fine for me. Ashton Kutcher is believable as a good kid with bad blackouts which blot out the memories of traumatic episodes in his life. Re-reading his journals, he is taken back to the moments of truth, and discovers he has the power to change things for the better. The rub is, every time he fixes one thing, another thing breaks. (And the things in question are the lives of his friends and family, and ultimately even his own.) It's like a Rubic's cube with all the sides solved but one; try to change the one, and everything else falls apart.

The moral of the story is, of course, "don't play God". But they wrapped a nail-biter of a flick around this simple lesson. It reminds me most of Frequency, though it's darker and more multi-threaded. Amy Smart did a fine job as well: she is believable as a struggling waitress, a well-off sorority sister, and, later, a crack-addled prostitute, as one of Kutcher's saves goes terribly wrong. The ending is bittersweet -- just like life. Those critics judged too harshly.

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I liked it too. The horrors the protagonist went through as a child turned by stomach, but out of psychological revulsion rather than visible gore, which I appreciated. I thought that the original ending made the movie better, though I'm glad that they went with the one they did -- which is to say, the original ending is just too much for me to bear and/but I enjoy the movie more knowing that it could have ended that way but did not. In other news, my younger brother the Hollywood peon says a deal is in the works to shoot Butterfly Effect 2 and 3 back-to-back.

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