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Johnny Five
I was genuinely excited to see this movie because I like intellectual thrillers, ones that make you think and rumble the seemingly stable hold we have on perceptions of reality. This movie promised all that and Keira Knightly – what an opportunity.
The story is that an ex-gulf war soldier who was wounded in battle returns home and the details are a little sketchy but he ends up in an institution for the criminally insane – convicted for a crime that he didn't commit. The head psychiatrist at the facility was involved in some questionable treatment on involuntary patients.
While going through this treatment our ex-gulf war soldier seems to have 'flash-forwards', which at first I thought was cool. It looked like he was going through amnesia and 'woke up' 15 years later, met a little girl (now grown up) he helped years ago. I thought this movie was a rediscover-your-traumatic-past movie – but I was disappointed.
The unfortunate thing about this movie was they seriously expected their audience to just accept that the soldier was going forward in time after his death and investigating the details of his own demise. The relationship between the grown-up girl and the soldier was poorly developed and it seems they just all of a sudden sleep together. Not very well written or put together. Butterfly Effect copy where The Butterfly Effect was much better. This movie had a good look and it had a lot of potential but in the end it was just FAR FETCHED AND SPASTIC!