I watched The Butterfly Effect last night, and I have to say that I was pretty impressed with the movie as a whole. I didn’t know anything about the movie prior to watching it except that Ashton Kutcher was in it. I had never seen him play a dramatic role, so I was looking forward to the change. I wasn’t disappointed!
Basically, Kutcher plays a guy named Evan who studies psychology. He’s doing research into memories or something and learns that he has the power to go back in time and change the bad things that happened to him. What he doesn’t count on is the fact that a whole bunch of other things change along with the bad incident. So every time Evan changes something, he comes back to a present that is different than the one he knows. This is the “butterfly effect” and it usually works out in a bad way.
The problem Evan faces is that he wants to save his childhood friend Kayleigh from committing suicide as an adult. So he goes back several different times until he finds the one incident that he can change which will allow Kayleigh to have a happy life.
Overall, this was a pretty good movie. Sure, there are plot holes if you try to pick the script apart, but the general concept was very cool. Check it out!