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Butterfly Effect: Revelation (2009)
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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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04.02.09
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The only thing this has in common with the first two movies is that the main character time-travels in the same manner. If he goes back ten years, then he's in that body from ten years ago. However, he has a slightly different problem then just messing around with time. He's after a serial killer.
The movie starts off in Detroit, with Sam Reid making money by being a "psychic" for the police. He goes back in time to witness murders, then identifies to the police who the murderer is. This money helps him pay his sister's (Rachel Miner) rent, as she's this sort of shut-in with psychological problems stemming from a fire in which their parents were killed. He won't talk about the incident.
But then a woman named Elizabeth Brown comes to visit Sam, and reminds him about the death of his girlfriend ten years earlier. The supposed killer is going to be executed but she insists the guy didn't do it--and that the killer is still out there. Sam, unwisely, decides to go back in time to see if this is true, but only manages to get Elizabeth killed as well. And each time he goes back in time the body count of the "Pontiac Killer" grows. Somehow he's created a serial killer--but who is it?
While the movie mostly ends on a positive note for a change, there is the sense that it will lead to something bad, as in "THE BAD SEED".
This is a decent time-travel movie and has some nasty killings. Also, it's one of the first times I've seen the Detroit area accurately portrayed in a movie. This was actually shot in Detroit (got to love those Michigan Film Incentives).
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Rating: 8.6 out of 10.0 - 7 votes cast total
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