The Butterfly Effect...3?

[The_Disturbed_One]

Okay, I thought the first one was decent at best, but the second one was an awful straight to DVD release. Who on earth would be tempted to create a third one? Well, I'll tell you: After Dark films. After Dark films are best known for their annual Horrorfest, which has been going on each year since 2006. The Horrorfest features "8 films to die for" and is in theaters for a limited run before being released on DVD months later.

Well, it just so happens that the Butterfly Effect 3 was one of the films chosen to be in the Horrorfest last year, but I hadn't heard of it until I went into the video store yesterday, when the film and the rest of Horrorfest III were released on DVD.

The Butterfly Effect 3 is not a direct sequel, in that it does not follow the lives of anyone from the first 2 films, but it keeps with the plot for the most part. Sam Reid is a man who is able to travel to the past is working with the police, on the payroll as a psychic. His job is to travel to certain points in time, such as the exact time of a murder, rape, kidnapping, etc. and to observe the events that take place and who caused said events. Sam has two rules every time he travels, or jumps, which are to not interfere and only to observe and never travel into his own past. However, when the sister of his ex-girlfriend arrives with a case of her own, Sam decides to break his rules to help her.

Overall, the film was not bad. I liked it better than the second one...which isn't saying much. Okay, let's begin: the shots were set up pretty bad, making me think that they had hired a rookie DP, the acting was decent at best, and there were plot holes you could drive a truck through. However, I found out pretty early why this film was in the Horrorfest, though I don't entirely agree with it, there was a bit of gore. That's it. If that's what qualifies a film for the horror genre now, then it is indeed a sad day in the motion picture industry.

I give the redundant Butterfly Effect 3 a 5.0/10 because every filmmaker has to start somewhere...

[gho57]

What size of a truck? (for the plothole driving)

Not that I'm going to watch it anyways, but I'm curious as to how bad the writing is.

[The_Disturbed_One]

It's really bad. They had a decent idea going that could have been morphed into a great film, but she just didn't know how to complete it properly. I'm surprise anyone picked it up, actually. What Holly Brix, the writer, should have done is write at least a second and third draft of the original script and give it to her colleagues to read it over. There are plenty of good writers out there, so really, there's no excuse as to why it was so bad.