Timeline: Critic Reviews

Lacking both will and budget, the filmmakers have done the honorable thing and given us a sweetly stupid, mercifully brisk bad movie.

Suggests a particularly wretched episode of Star Trek tricked out with fancy fireworks and weighed down with a score that grinds away like a cement mixer.

Time travels, but it sure doesn't fly by in this debacle.

Resembles a Star Trek episode by way of Scooby-Doo.

It's long, sloppy, and -- to both the quantum-physics ignorant and informed -- steadily implausible, never exciting in either its skill or its ludicrousness.

C'est la 'B'! Timeline is crudely written, haphazardly acted, and improbably fun.

An instant contender for cult status on the midnight-movie circuit, where lines like 'Do we look like quantum wormhole specialists?' will be given the respect they deserve.

Where are the Knights Who Say 'Ni!' when we need them?

Despite choppy, clunky moments, it leaves you with a smile.

Just once I'd like to see a time-travel movie inspired by true curiosity about the past, instead of by a desire to use it as a setting for action scenes.

Most of the time, it's fun to watch.

This big-budget adventure is based on a recent Michael Crichton thriller, though its premise is too stale to instill the sense of wonder critical to great sci-fi.

Easily the best Dude, Where's My Century? flick since Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

There's a lot of action and nifty special effects in a climactic battle scene. But the movie pays only fleeting attention to other matters, including character development.

This Dude, Where's My Sword-time travel mess is funnier than a good many intentional comedies.

An overgrown TV episode, another wearisome journey into the past where modern 20-somethings gape in wonder at knights in shining armor, who respond by trying to skewer these reality-show rejects with authentic rubber swords.

Yet another case of making time travel a messy ordeal rather than a load of fun, Timeline lacks the consistent tone, pace and point of view for either a science fiction thriller or medieval war adventure.

This is not just a 'B-movie' -- it's a B-movie that fails to entertain on any level.

Bad history. Bad science. Bad acting. Bad movie.

Curiously lacking in energy, which may be the result of an obviously cut-rate production budget that skimps on the sci-fi sizzle.

Plays out like a 1950s B-movie with a fat special-effects budget.

Here [Walker] has been given the heart-rending role of, uh, Paul Walker, and I'm sad to report he's not up to the task.

This movie is in desperate need of a pulse.

Harmless fun with a game cast in the grand tradition of '50s B movies that don't seem to realize how funny their dialogue is.

By turns risibly puerile and purely risible, the screenplay groans under the weight of its multiple platitudes.