VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

SnoopyStyle Gabriel (Rufus Sewell) disappears during a business trip. His wife Marika (Gillian Anderson) is left to raise their son Erol. Twelve years later, Erol (Haley Joel Osment) is a student of his grandfather Sal (Victor Garber). He tells him about his father possibly traveled back in time to 1946. Erol starts working on their own time machine while his girlfriend Grace informs him about her pregnancy. She fears his interference changing their relationship.This does not have enough tension. It has no intensity. Haley Joel Osment is limited as the leading man. The lead in the first act is actually Gillian Anderson. This is basically a long extended sci-fi TV. In fact, I would cut it down to 46 minutes and make a pretty good hour long TV episode. This doesn't have the flash of even the smallest sci-fi indies. The premise is fine but there isn't enough to bulk it up.

Siren555 I love time travel-themed movies (even somewhat weak ones), and I'm a fan of Gillian Anderson, but "I'll Follow You Down" is still a bad movie. The good: Gillian Anderson is in it. "I'll Follow You Down" is well shot, with very nice color and lighting. The sound is fine. The decent: The film score is fine, except that at times it sets an awkward, almost Disney-like, tone (and this film has quite a serious tone). The bad: The editing is clunky during scene breaks -- there's one fade to black that lasts so, so, so, so, so, so long that it completely takes you out of the story. The screenplay needed a couple of big rewrites and better direction. The story focused on all the wrong elements and none of the right ones. The most compelling aspect of the movie was given all of about 5 minutes. The writing was weak to the point of, at times, making good actors look bad. There's a decent plot idea but not much of a plot. The plot points that do exist are so forced that they're quite literally laughable, the most notable example being a coffee shop scene about 4/5 into the story. In an attempt to draw out the dramatic tension, a character is being so ridiculously unaware of the truth that's right in front of him/her that you wonder if the character might be mentally delayed. The bottom line: Fail.

begob I'm not a sci-fi fan, but I do like a puzzle - this didn't deliver.What we get is an emotional family drama, with an excellent performance by Anderson that gives ballast to the story. Pity she leaves early on. After that I found it sentimental.The vagary of fate in parallel universes is pointed up well, but the working out of the puzzle is a bit blah. And the second act is too long, leaving too little time in the end for the time travel - just 20 mins. That's when the audience should be having fun. The gunshot is unexpected, but not really satisfying - plus it's an easy out for the film maker in avoiding the cheesiness of meeting Einstein.The lead actor is very confident, convincing in his early scenes, but didn't deliver any great line and didn't look the part.The string music is conventional.

lhunt-9 I'll Follow You Down is NOT a typical scifi-suspense-thriller. There are no automatic weapons or time cops. There is no high-tech research centre. There is in fact no "action" as delivered by most cinema these days, and only minimal, situationally necessary violence. The film is presented and paced like a stage play. The first hour (or more) is used to set the stage for the decisive events that occur in the final act, if you will. It is certainly slow-paced and "talkie," and calls the viewer back to another, earlier era in film-making. Honestly, the acting is not gripping, the characters aren't deeply developed, and suspension of disbelief in the technological ideas is difficult, if not impossible. Nonetheless, there is a level at which this modestly-budgeted made-in-Canada effort does succeed. That is, I found myself truly caring how everything would play out for the characters, and for how they would resolve their struggles with their dilemmas... which were mostly further losses following (minor spoiler) a father's disappearance early on. The themes were universal enough to be engaging. I'd say that the majority of the issues addressed were unstated, and the film's resolution of most of them was equivocal at best. The time travel theme has been much better developed elsewhere, yet, this film still had something, perhaps unique, to say. Finally, the "disappeared" father must face a stark dilemma, and the final minutes of the film deliver the moral of the story, which, if simplistic, did not ring false, at least in "this timeline." In terms of contemporary productions, an effort like Continuum develops a far more sophisticated and complex vision of time travel --- one that makes you stretch, and stretch again. This film doesn't do that at all, nor does it attempt to. The idea of time travel is really secondary to the primary and overriding moral theme. But... please allow me to conclude it like this: Had this been a stage production, it would in fact have worked --- and that is not easy to say for most ideas developed in science fiction film. This is a slow boiler for a quiet and contemplative evening, and not much at all like most other science fiction movies.