It is one of the most dangerous theories in history, where through his theories with the time machine of his invention, the scientist and inventor Alexander Hartggen is doing a fairy tale. He will travel 800,000 years in the future, where he finds mankind divided into two belligerent races, which may be quite surprising.
They gave The Time Machine a major overhaul and ended up with a clunker.
L.A. Weekly
March 09, 2002
In the new film, it's personal tragedy that provokes the journey, not social upheaval or even scientific curiosity -- which, predictably, makes for a story that's at once more familiar and less interesting.
eFilmCritic.com
March 19, 2003
If I had a time machine that could take me back only four hours, I'd take my nine dollars, find the original movie at a video store, and spend the rest on an In N'Out Burger.
If H.G. Wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin's reworked version, what would he say? 'It looks good, Sonny, but you missed the point.'