Film Review - About Time

                                       A Romantic Time Travel

Film: About Time

Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy

Directed by: Richard Curtis

Duration: 2 hrs 2 mins

Rating: * * 1 / 2

            Directed by the romcom specialist Richard Curtis (writer of Notting Hill, Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral) About Time is the amalgamation of a story that involves two diverse genres - romance and time travel. Now, its not often you come across a film involving the two, so it grabs your attention immediately. But sadly, the running time is more than 2 hours and the plot goes in a loop when it could have so easily made the same point in 90 minutes.

            A young man Tim (Domhnall Gleeson) learns a family secret from his father (Bill Nighy) that all the men in their family can travel back in time, if and when they wanted to. Tim uses this valuable trait to woo a girl Mary (Rachel McAdams), when things don’t go in his favor the first time, he simple rewinds back and sets them right.

            Gradually their romance blooms, they get hitched and Tim also has a couple of other family matters to take care of.  Now all this takes it own sweet time and in the end, the predictable message of living each day at a time and making the best of it, is delivered.

            I quite enjoyed 3/4^th of the film but when it started to elongate you begin to wonder, does it have any more steam left. Unfortunately, there was very little. Like a Richard Curtis script, everything is pretty much sugar coated and there is very little subtlety here as the voice over keeps explaining everything.

            Nevertheless, if you dig romantic films, you might find some enjoyment in this film. 

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