MOVIE REVIEW: THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE

The premise for The Time Traveler's Wife is a unique story that steps away from your typical chick flick stories. The movie revolves around the journeys of Henry DeTamble through time. At the age of five Henry time travels during a traffic accident where he witnesses his mother's death. He is immediately met by his future self to inform him of his disease later diagnosed as chrono-displacement. Henry works as a librarian in Chicago where he runs into Claire for the first time at age eighteen. Upon their meeting, Claire informs Henry that she has met him before and that she has actually known him most of her life. Claire first meets Henry at age six in a field and tells Claire when she can expect him to be at the library. From here the movie goes into several different story lines dealing with Henry and Claires relationship through the different timelines Henry has.

For the most part, I enjoyed this movie for the fact that it did bring something new to the table as far as chick flicks are concerned. I haven't read the book, but I feel a lot of the movie was rushed as most movies made from books are. My main problem with the film is that the movie rushed the relationship between Claire and Henry so I really didn't care about the characters I was watching. A lot of the film deals with their relationship problems due to the loneliness Claire has due to Henry's disappearances and with several miscarriages Claire has due to Henry passing the gene along to the the children, so it kinda seemed like they just fought most of the movie since they never built a relationship between them the audience could care about. Also, there were some events in the movie that were touched very quickly and then abandoned as if they were trying to fit a lot of pieces in the movie from the book without spending too much time on them. In the end it was a pretty decent movie that I would recommend. It gets a 3 out 5.