The Time Traveler's Wife

Rating: 7.9/10
Genre: Romance
Overall value for money and time: 7.9/10

Knowing how this movie is a remake of a novel and how remakes usually disappoint, I wasn't expecting much out of it. But this movie sure brought justice to all the anticipation; it's 2nd to The Lake House in its genre as The Proposal is to Definitely, Maybe (Romantic Comedy).

The only complain I have about his movie is the ending, it's anti-climaxal, but everything else was good. It's what you would expect from a romantic movie and the plot was engaging enough to keep your attention hooked till the very end. With a movie made about time travel, it's always a challenge to make it as "full-proof" as possible, and this movie had little problems with that. Still, the most impending question will always surface - which came first? The chicken or the egg?

Henry has a gene which causes him to time travel involuntarily, where it would normally take him to the past or to the future where "big" events would happen in his life. We go on a journey with him through his life (the older days), his marriage, the death of his mother, and his perspective future. We see the hardships not only he, but his wife has to endure to keep their marriage alive.

It's quite a "quote: magical" kind of movie which will open your heart to what it really feels like to be in love. It is not just the presence, but the absence as well which makes love whole.