The Time Traveler's Wife - if not for the actors, horrible

This review may have a few spoilers, so if you are really wanting to see this movie, you might want to hold off on reading this one. The first words out of my mouth when the credits starting rolling were, "Man! That was really sad." Not to spoil anything for you, but it was. It was actually more than that. It was a load of crap. Don't misunderstand me, I don't only like movies with happy endings. Some of the best movies don't have happy endings, instead they have "real" endings. But this movie is based on a totally unbelievable premise so a "real" ending is out of the picture.

The Time Traveler's Wife is a love story about Henry and Clare (Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams). Henry has a disorder which causes him to travel through time at random times and times of high stress. During one of his time travels he meets a young Clare. They form a friendship until one day Clare meets the present day Henry. They fall in love and get married, but Henry's time traveling causes a strain on their relationship because he is gone without any warning, sometime for days and weeks. This is a story of unconditional, lifelong love as Clare loves Henry although he leaves her all the time.

I admit, its a sweet premise. But the Henry's leaving and coming kind of get tedious and repetitive. You go through this emotional roller coaster with these two people and then the ending just straight up pisses you off.

If I didn't have a bit of man crush on Eric Bana ever since Black Hawk Down and if I didn't fall in love with Rachel McAdams in EVERY movie she plays in, I probably would have hated this movie. But, alas, I really like both actors so seeing them in it made the movie at least tolerable. The thing with watching romances is they kind of make your life feel a little enriched, a little better after you watch them, or at least they are supposed to. This one left me frustrated and wishing I'd opted for whatever other movie I had sitting there at the time. Maybe I'm being too much of a guy, but I just didn't like this one. Girls its still pretty sappy and the actor's do a good job of playing in love, but I still don't think you'll be thrilled about this one. It might be good for a decent snuggle session, but I imagine there are better chick flicks than this one out right now.