H.G.Wells, Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow.

Having recently seen the Time Machine with my son at the decadent establisment called Crown Casino Complex in Melborne, I thought I might give a review of the movie. Guy Pearce is Alexander Hartegen a nutty professor type. Very much into theoretical physics, constantly preoccupied, finds the courage to propose to the love of his life only to lose her in an accidental shooting. This event spurs him on to develop his "time machine" to prevent the tradegy that befell his love. He finds he can't change history as easy as he thought possible and is unable to prevent her death by intervening before the event.

Then he moves into the future to find the answer to that question, why he can't change the past.

It is good to see H.G.Wells' classic still firing the imagination of Hollywood in the 21st Century. The basic premise still holds today even with our advanced science and modern views.

I think Guy Pearce did an admiral job as the key character who knocks himself out after a disaster on the moon creates earthquakes and the end of civilisation on Earth. Hartdegen moves through the eons finally awakening in the distant future. Note that the cataclysmic disaster is now of a nuclear bomb nature on the moon (runnaway commercialism in the future perhaps) rather than the US and Russia lobbing those evil monsters in their silos at each other, like the earlier version of "Time Machine", you know the one, with that other Australian Actor, yes, Rod Taylor.

The Eloi appear more believable this time and of course Alexander falls for a charming young lady (played by Samatha Mumbo) who gets taken by the terriball secret that is the Morlocks. Well done special effects created a creature larger, meaner and more athletic than us poor humans.

The Moorlocks live underground and are slaves to a monster, half man, half morlock who claims the superiority of the vast time that his tampering with nature has produce the Eloi as a food source for his Moorlocks and the occasional female to assist his wicked perversion of science.

Like everything else these days from Hollywood this is an anti-science view of the future, admittedly a longtime in the future, but neverthless allowing the primitive Eloi to defeat the Moorlocks with Alexanders help.