Search - Journey to the Center of Time on DVD

Craig S. (InnerMacro) from WAUSAU, WI
Reviewed on 9/2/2024...

If you enjoy long sequences of lame techno-babble and lots of 'prepare to standby' and countdowns from 10 to 1, then you might find this film well-paced. This movie would be entertaining to make fun of, but it's loaded with boring dialogue. The 'villain' is the guy who funds the project, and he's an utter moron who plays the part of the 'inform the audience' character. This goes way overboard such that a five-year old might understand, but would never sit still that long for a movie such as this, thus the effort is pointless. There's also an extended scene where the viewer is forced to watch old footage of men fighting through the years from WWII to the old west to Rome etc. Yes, this movie is padded out and relies on cliches that were old even in 1968. The old 'use-a-real-reptile' to represent a dinosaur trick is perhaps stupidly funny for a bit.

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Jeffrey L.
Reviewed on 9/20/2009...

It was an enjoyable movie, not up to today's special effects but an interesting story.

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Gave 1 star because I can't give a zero.

Martin Asiner | 06/12/2003

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Poor quality film. Poor DVD transfer. No Extras. Waste of time. At least I didn't throw a lot of money away on it. Terrible film."

Don't even think about it

K. TAHSIN HERSAN | Istanbul, NA Turkey | 07/21/2000

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I was disappointed of the visual quality of this dvd. Also the scenario and the cinematography is way too bad to watch this film. I don't recommend you to buy it. The only good thing is its cheap price..."

A Spark Of Interest Marks This Dreck

Martin Asiner | jersey city, nj United States | 12/31/2005

(2 out of 5 stars)

"JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF TIME is one of those cheaply made science fiction films whose miniscule budgets are matched only by an equally miniscule plot, direction, scripting, and acting. In this clunker, Scott Brady is your typically beefy industrialist whose only connection to the advancement of science is the financial bottom line. His unwillingness to open the vaults of further funding forces his scientists, lamely played by Gigi Perreau and Anthony Eisley, to prematurely loop ahead to the future in a time machine. Naturally, there is a mishap that lands then squarely in a nuclear war, whose own weirdly made up leaders (Lyle Waggonner and Pouppe Gamin) do little more than prance about for their few minutes of screen time. Brady and his time travelling cohorts travel back to 1,000,000 BC where they meet dinosaurs. Apparently, the script writers failed to indicate that the dinosaurs died out when a comet smacked into the earth 65 million years ago. At this point, whatever plot coherence there was dissolves into a misty mess of chintzy special effects whose only apparent purpose is to divert the viewer's attention from the T-Rex size plot holes. Further complicating matters is a series of potentially interesting temporal paradoxes that might have engaged the viewer had the script respected his intelligence to the point of incorporating them into a coherent plot. By the final reel, the viewer is asked to accept yet again another dopey science fiction cop out ending of How We All Began. JTTCOT had the potential to be more than all hands concerned made it. But because it groped, however dimly, toward Saying Something Interesting, I gave it two stars."