Clockstoppers
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Movie Reviews of Clockstoppers
Movie Review: NOT TOO BAD...
Summary: 3 Stars
CLOCKSTOPPERS reminds me of an afterschool special, aimed at a teen audience but okay entertainment for we adults too.
Jesse Bradford plays a young man who stumbles upon a watch that can stop time, which he finds amusing at first but then when corrupt government agent Michael Biehn comes after him, he finds himself in danger.
The special effects are okay and Bradford and his fellow castmates appealing; it's all been done before and better, but this one's passable.
Movie Review: some good fun
Summary: 3 Stars
I must say, I was overly surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. I didn't think it was great or anything, but I had a fun time watching it. It sure beat the socks off the new 2002 movie The Time Machine. And also, my five year sister enjoyed Clockstoppers as well.Movie Review: OK for youngsters; boring for adults
Summary: 2 Stars
"Clockstoppers" seems perfectly designed to appeal to the pre- and early-adolescent audience that is so obviously its target. It offers a clever gimmick, cool special effects, teenage heroes, puppy-love romance, a blaring rock soundtrack and even a mildly dysfunctional father/son relationship to help give the film its requisite patina of "social relevance." Adults, on the other hand - for all the reasons listed above - may well wish they could "hypertime" themselves through most of this tale about a crazy watch that has the power to stop time dead in its tracks.For a concept like this to really work (as it did in, say, "Back to the Future"), it has to be developed using a great deal of ingenuity and creativity. That is definitely not the case here. Indeed, the writers, once having come up with the gimmick, seem to have no idea what on earth to do with it for the hour and a half that the film is required to run. Predictably, when the youngsters discover the extraordinary power of the object in their possession, they spend most of their time using it to play dumb practical jokes on the unsuspecting citizens living in their obviously studio back lot town. Then, when the novelty of that wears off, the filmmakers trap them in a tedious plot involving stereotypical rule-the-world villains and kidnappers who are bent on retrieving the watch even if it means liquidating all the main characters in the process.
"Clockstoppers" works well enough for prepubescent audiences primarily because both the violence and the lovemaking are kept on a purely prophylactic level (there's also no bad language in the movie). I suppose I must applaud the moviemakers for that. Yet, the film, just as assuredly, offers little that will interest anyone over the age of 15.