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Despite an all-star cast (Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Stone) and a Michael Crichton story, Barry Levinson's latest directorial effort is a big-budget bust.
Neither Spielberg, nor screenwriter David Koepp, nor Michael Crichton, on whose novel the movie is based, have shown any interest in challenging the moralistic assumption at the heart of almost every creature feature: That good intentions, spunkiness and, above all, good looks are the safeguards against rampaging monsters.
"Crichton isn't nearly as interested in people and their inner workings as he is in things and their inner workings," but that doesn't stop the book from being fun to read: "It's the geeky stuff, in fact, that makes Crichton's books so hugely entertaining" (Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Times Book Review ). A few critics can't work up any excitement, labeling it just another "dull time-travel tale" (James Poniewozik, Time ) that is bound for the movies.
Perhaps they'd watched Michael Crichton's inventive fiction one too many times, he suggests.
"His characters are only insubstantial shadows on a screen and Timeline is not a novel, but a shooting script" (Richard Dyer, the Boston Globe ). (Crichton's official site includes an excerpt from the book.)