I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting much. Butterfly Effect 2 film has two who-are-these-people? stars: Eric Lively and Erica Durance, and is a squeal to the original film, Butterfly Effect (which I’ve not yet seen). Surely, it didn’t bode well. However, Butterfly Effect 2, directed by John R. Leonetti, succeeds very well. The premise while a little muddled works. Our star Nick Larson (Lively) a young software executive, is the lone survivor of a traffic accident that takes the life of his childhood sweetheart Julie Miller (Durance) and his two closest friends Trevor and Amanda. But, through the magic of schizophrenia (and digital camera pictures) Nick is able to jump back in time and manages to rewrite history, saving himself and the threesome from the truck accident. Course, the problem with rewriting history is sometimes what you get is not exactly what you envisioned. And so it is with Nick, who finds himself jumping back several times, making more of a mess each time. This film delivers good bang for the buck and is well acted and directed with a storyline that keeps you interested (save the last 3 minutes which seem rushed as though the director ran out of money and was forced to end the story sooner than he hoped).
My rating 7 out of 10.
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