In that story, there seem to be many challenges for new students. That story begins when a team of Yale students decide to find their teacher after he has gone missing. Along the way, students must come to France in the fourteenth century with many vicissitudes and strange challenges.
Yet another case of making time travel a messy ordeal rather than a load of fun, Timeline lacks the consistent tone, pace and point of view for either a science fiction thriller or medieval war adventure.
Empire Magazine
November 05, 2008
Timeline takes the most ridiculous movie plot ever and multiplies it by ten.
This big-budget adventure is based on a recent Michael Crichton thriller, though its premise is too stale to instill the sense of wonder critical to great sci-fi.