I'll Follow You Down
I'll Follow You Down
PG-13 | 05 August 2014 (USA)
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After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home.

Reviews
ada the leading man is my tpye
Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Paul Evans The sci fi mystery movie is a genre of film that is sadly almost non existent. So when they come along hopes are high, the likes of The Adjustment Bureau, Limitless, The Forgotten, all superb films. When I saw Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell heading this up I was so excited.Sadly one the hype had gone, and I settled into the film, I found it quite boring, the concept was huge, they could have done and gone anywhere, bit sadly we got too much melodrama, we could have had Einstein, we could have had huge scale events, but instead we got domestic goings on, so disappointing.Anderson was excellent as you'd expect, but the film was stollen by Haley Joel Osment, who was brilliant.It's not bad, it just fails to ignite.
suite92 The Three Acts: The initial tableaux: Erol's father Gabriel leaves for a routine trip. When Erol and Marika wait for his return at the airport, he does not arrive. Marika and Sal search to no avail.Twelve years pass. Sal has done a huge amount of background work to replicate an experiment that he knew Gabriel wanted to attempt involving time travel. Sal enlists Erol's help in finishing the details.Delineation of conflicts: Erol's girlfriend Grace is against the attempt, since she thinks their current life will be lost. Sal wants Erol to continue, since Sal hopes to 'correct' the timeline. Marika struggles with her loss.Resolution: Supposing Erol can construct the wormhole, will he be able to convince Gabriel to alter his course?
prativasic The only good thing about the movie was that the plot was great. But the movie is wrong in ways. First, what does the name of the movie indicate to you? To me, it sounds like that some detective story where the central character tries to bring the criminal to justice. Now, if you see the movie, you know what it is about. The son tries to go back to the past to bring back his father. And, all the time, the son, Erol, has this attitude that his father is some kind of criminal. Here, my friend, I find this movie morally offensive. And that is the most important thing for a movie to me. The son Erol is a hypocrite. He loves his mother, and so he wants to go back to fix everything, but when his girlfriend is pregnant, he doesn't want to go! Again, he wants to go when he learns that his girlfriend suffers an abortion. I mean, come on. You want to blame your father for abandoning you, and yet you don't do the right thing when you have the chance; you only do it when it is convenient. How can you, after that, blame somebody who actually tried to do something for the greater good and get killed accidentally? How can you judge him? Needless to say, only the acting for Gillian Anderson was fitting, all other casts were *nothing special*, and the central character was the worst. The dialogues could be improved a lot more. The lack of emotion in the most important scene is conspicuous. Overall, the direction and story ruined most of the movie in combination with the dull casts.
lavatch This low-budget film out of Canada combines a clever time-travel premise with an abundance of sentimentality. Haley Joel Osment is good as the young time-traveler/scientist, who journeys through time from 2012 to 1946, to meet with the father whom he lost in the same wormhole.Gillian Anderson is also good as the bereaved wife of a husband whose secret life as a time-traveler she never knew. The plot is unfortunately mired in an unnecessary relationship of Osment's character Erol and his girlfriend, who seeks to persuade him not to take the plunge into the time warp in search of his lost father.SPOILER ALERT FOLLOWS: A golden opportunity was missed when young Erol meets his father at the moment when he attempts to have a private conversation with Albert Einstein. The father knocks on Einstein's door in Princeton, N.J. in 1946, but Einstein is out for a walk. Incredibly, the filmmakers do not follow through with what could have been a great scene with the iconic scientist.Some of the best scenes were those of young Osment with Victor Garber's character of Gramps, who is working with him on the time machine. But filled with melodramatic scenes, especially the shocking ending, "I'll Follow You Down" is overwhelmed with maudlin and mundane moments that detract from the excitement of what should have been the single-minded focus of the film: time travel.