6. The Butterfly Effect(2004)
Before
Ashton Kutcher was the worlds most popular tweeter and Mr. Demi Moore he starred in this above average head-scratching time travel yarn. Having only really showed what he could do in comedy prior to the films release,
The Butterfly Effect came as somewhat of a departure for Kutcher, but I personally think he does a good job as the time-hopping Evan Treborn.
The Butterfly Effects tagline was Change one thing. Change everything and came as a stark warning about the effect time travel can have. By reading his old diaries, Treborn can travel back into the mind of himself as a child and thus influence past events for the better, theres just one small catch: every time he returns to the present after one of his little rectification jaunts, he finds himself in one horrendous alternate time line after another. Thus we see Kutcher as a paraplegic and serving a prison sentence and the lives of his friends and childhood sweetheart altered beyond recognition as well. The film benefits from a directors cut which has a much darker ending and gives more emotional punch to Evans ability and its consequences.
The Butterfly Effect also managed to finally give
Eric Stoltz his time travel moment after he was unceremoniously dumped from
Back to the Future, although Im not sure playing an abusive father in
The Butterfly Effect can quite compensate being dropped from the starring role in one of the most iconic and popular films of all time...