Clockstoppers

2002 "What if you had the power to stop time?"
5.2| 1h34m| PG| en
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Until now, Zak Gibbs' greatest challenge has been to find a way to buy a car. But when he discovers an odd wristwatch amidst his father's various inventions and slips it on -- something very strange happens. The world around him seems to come to a stop, everything and everybody frozen in time. Zak quickly learns how to manipulate the device and he and his quick-witted and beautiful new friend, Francesca, start to have some real fun.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Chrysanthepop It may not be ground-breaking cinemas and the screenplay is loaded with flaws but that doesn't stop 'Clockstoppers' from being a fun little film. If a movie has heart, it's easy to like and that is the case here. In addition it's got style and is pretty cool to look at. The younger generation would particularly be drawn to it. There are some amazing special effects, very cool ideas (like the main theme itself which is about manipulating time) and plenty of humour, action and energy. While the main storyline is interesting but there are a few plot holes that needed some filling. But then again, it's not a movie that was meant to be taken too seriously. The acting is brilliant. Jesse Bradford, Paula Garcés, French Stewart, Michael Biehn, Robin Thomas, Garikayi Mutambirwa and Julia Sweeney are very good. Garcés looks supercute. She and Bradford (who is always dependable where good acting is concerned) make a nice couple. It would be fun to see them pair up again. Overall 'Clockstoppers' is a fun movie targetted mainly at the younger audience but who says adults can't enjoy it?
ctomvelu1 Clever kiddie movie that harks back to such lighthearted 1980s fantasy fare as "Weird Science" and "Gremlins." Jesse Bradford, playing a Zach Galligan-type teenager, "borrows" his scientist-father's weird watch that allows the wearer to speed up his molecules, so that everyone and everything around him appears to slow down and freeze. He and his new girlfriend have some fun with the device, until they realize they are being pursued by some very unpleasant people who are after the watch. Familiar TV actor French Stewart plays a wacky scientist who comes to the kids' aid. There's really nothing here you haven't seen before, but it is fun while it lasts. Great special effects.
patrick_dunne ---SPOILERS--- I remember only part of this movie, and here's what it was: Zak is some kid whose dad works as a professor, teaching science to high-schoolers. (Or was it college?) He claims that if something was moving very fast, that everything else would seem slower. So, he invents a watch to test it. His son, Zak, steals the watch (I think that's what happened.) and makes him and his lady friend speed through time- which makes everything else seem slower.So, what I remembered about this movie was how unrealistic it was. There were two scenes that were this way.The first one was when their in the garden. The people supposedly go so fast that everything seems slower. How is that possible when the to characters experiencing "super-speed" hardly move at all? The second part was near the ending. Zak somehow speeds up the watch or something, to go even faster. Hyper-speed? Super-time?Well, this part just about messed up the whole movie. If he's going so fast, how does he get caught in a net? When they were slower, everything else showed no sign of motion. Now, when he's in "hyper-time" he gets caught in a net gun. Why? How? To make a story? I think the kids might enjoy it, but the adults should stay far away. That's all I really have to say.Feel free to send me a Private Message regarding this comment.
Lars-Toralf Storstrand Once again we see that a story might not sparkle in itself, but when the same story are combined with wild effects it can make a decent hour or two of escapism. As with Clockstoppers. The problem is that the idea behind the "time-travel-like" ideology that bears the movie is to far-fetched for even the most fanatical phantasm-believer to swallow. Please give us a little more credit next time. Don't expect us to just accept stupid lines and ideas anymore. Be fantastic with a realistic viewpoint. Now I will not be the one to say that I could have done it better. Because I couldn't. But if you had asked someone before you made it, to sift away the unbelievable stuff, the movie would have been better off...