The Time Traveller's Wife

Year: 2009
Director: Robert Schwentke

Maybe my expectations from this movie were too high. I have heard so much about the book & have been wanting to read it for a long time, but i got hold of the movie before i could get the book. I think i expected it to be something so terribly moving that i would need boxes of tissues to see me through & feel like calling up ex boyfriends & professing eternal love to them just for the day, even if i really think they are complete jerks. But none of that happened. I guess romance is a hard genre to work with. Only masters can make romances that strike that certain chord inside people that makes the film a classic in its genre. And director Rober Schwenke surely is not one of those people.
The plot goes like this...
Eric Bana plays the main protagonist, Henry, who is born with a genetic defect that makes him travel in time. All is not very well with his life when he meets Claire (Rachel McAdams) who claims she has known him her entire life as later in his life he travels in time to go meet Claire as a little girl & tell her their little story. They fall in love & get married & life gets far more complicated from there. I won't be giving out more than this, mostly because it's all too complicated!
In the end, the movie is okay but some parts kept bugging me. For example, when Henry first meets Claire, he doesn't know her at all, so i guessed he never travels to the future, only to the past. But later he's shown travelling to the future, so he does indeed travel to the future. But then why had he never even seen the woman who would be his wife & the love of his life before he meets her in err... real time? Anyway, i guess it's not worth thinking so much about. I think i will go read the book, i think it's gonna be better than the film, because the plot is intriguing, but the movie just doesn't make the mark.