Shuffle

When I first saw it I thought it would be The same fanatic Movies that's just rubbing the whole time travel thing That I am fed up to it but it actually takes a very humanitarian look on it and I like the end to justify all that with a very realistic look and makes you wonder how to live your life the fullest and be kind to everyone else so The message is loud and clear

Movie suffers from poor cinematography, or at the very least sepia/fuzzy grading makes it look worse than it deserves to be. Probably should be remade or at least just reshot.

Pacing can be slow, but worth watching if you like high concept dramas in the same vein of Groundhog's Day or The Lake House then you'll probably like this. Performances are hit and miss, but I'd imagine that Kurt Kuen manage to attract some decent talent due to his heart breaking film Dear Zachery. Makeup is pretty good too.

Give the movie a shot.

The beginning of the movie hooks you completely, the story presents itself as very interesting and full of mystery, to some extent it reminded me to Memento (2000) or The Butterfly Effect (2004) but as it progresses the film becomes Premonition (2007) mixed with Déjà vu (2006), the cuts in the time-lines are completely lose and end up telling you the story in a linear way until the end that concludes extremely cheesy pretty much like Hallmark Channel style. The message is nice but freezes up there, does not go further, and it is unfortunate since the initial approach was to be an excellent thriller but the script ended up being a soap opera. A real shame.

Gosh!!!! I wish i could give this movie a 10! After seeing "Validation" short movie so many times, i was already a fan of TJ Thyne. Well, he does not disappoint in Shuffle, neither any of the other actors. The plot is clever, the photography is amazing (the B&W really works!), and time flew by as i was living the story... until the VERY END almost ruined it all! I agree with other review here... After those last minutes, i felt like i was slapped on the face, after being swept away! I did not understand the need of that last scene, as everything falls in place without it.

Watch it if you can. It's a very nice piece of cinema art!

P.S: Only after yesterday's episode of "Bones" i realized that Thyne is Dr. Jack Hodgins!! Maybe my head was focused because i was "getting shuffled" latter on!

I was expecting this to be a time travel thriller/mystery, but it ultimately turned out to be more of an "It's a Wonderful Life" kind of thing. And oddly enough, I wasn't disappointed when it headed in that direction. It definitely has its issues: needless melodrama, cliches all over the place, a twist that isn't too hard to figure out, and an ending that just seems superfluous. However, maybe I just watched this on the right day or something because I found myself sucked in by the sweetness of it. With all the bad stuff going on in the world every day, this movie was a nice little diversion that made me laugh and cry, and left me with a nice case of the warm fuzzies.