I'll Follow You Down (2014)

the audience applauded

Fantastic!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I'll follow you down is a time travel film which is original in its story and a well scripted, well crafted mystery. It stars Haley Joel Osment and he is absolutely terrific. It also stars Gilliam Anderson and Rufus Sewell who both give outstanding performances. The story has a great pace to it easing us into the characters and setting the story up nicely for the rest of the film to unfold. If you like sci-fi mystery dramas then this will not disappoint you. It has just the right amount of each to keep you completely engaged for the whole film. Based on the fact I love sci-fi, a good mystery and a good family feel drama I am rating this an impressive 9 out of 10. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!!

The only good thing about the movie was that the plot was great. But the movie is wrong in ways. First, what does the name of the movie indicate to you? To me, it sounds like that some detective story where the central character tries to bring the criminal to justice. Now, if you see the movie, you know what it is about. The son tries to go back to the past to bring back his father. And, all the time, the son, Erol, has this attitude that his father is some kind of criminal. Here, my friend, I find this movie morally offensive. And that is the most important thing for a movie to me. The son Erol is a hypocrite. He loves his mother, and so he wants to go back to fix everything, but when his girlfriend is pregnant, he doesn't want to go! Again, he wants to go when he learns that his girlfriend suffers an abortion. I mean, come on. You want to blame your father for abandoning you, and yet you don't do the right thing when you have the chance; you only do it when it is convenient. How can you, after that, blame somebody who actually tried to do something for the greater good and get killed accidentally? How can you judge him? Needless to say, only the acting for Gillian Anderson was fitting, all other casts were *nothing special*, and the central character was the worst. The dialogues could be improved a lot more. The lack of emotion in the most important scene is conspicuous. Overall, the direction and story ruined most of the movie in combination with the dull casts.

Erol (Haley Joel Osment) and his grandfather (Victor Garber) work together using quantum physics to develop the ability to travel back in time, with the aim of repairing a family shattered by the disappearance 12 years earlier of Erol's father (Rufus Sewell). This is a movie about relationships and the possible selfish impacts of time travel upon them. For example, if Erol travels back in time to prevent his father's disappearance, how can he guarantee his fiancée (Susanna Fournier) that they will still be together in the new version of the present day? This is not an action movie. There are no special effects. It is essentially a mystery drama with time travel acting as the primary plot device.I enjoyed the movie. Its definitely not perfect. A little slow in places. I read several reviewers complain about the casting of Haley Joel Osment. I thought he was fine, though given his physical appearance it is hard to imagine him being the son of Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson and the grandson of Victor Garber. However, if you can suspend your disbelief and believe that a couple of men writing mathematical equations on a chalk board can make time travel possible, then anything is possible.

I admit that I am fascinated by the whole idea of time travel, so I watched "I Will Follow You Down" with great interest.Marika (Gillian Anderson) and her son Erol drop their husband and father off at the airport when he travels to a conference in New Jersey. He never returns.Twelve years later, Erol (now Haley Joel Osment) learns not only what happened to his father, but also learns that there may be a way to get him back.This film starts slowly but still manages to draw you in. It deals with not only time travel, but the ramifications of a situation change because of time travel. The acting is very good, with Osment turning in a top performance. Gillian Anderson is full of surprises - from X-Files to work in England, including a highly-touted Streetcar Named Desire - she's obviously a dedicated performer, and it shows here.I liked it - you care about the characters, and the story is good. Can't ask for much more.