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All's not Wells in a big waste of time

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From: Evening Times
Date: 20020530
Author:andy dougan

The director of this new reworking of the classic H.G. Wells story gave up before the picture was finished - I know how he felt.

Simon Wells - a distant relative of Herbert George - was laid low apparently with exhaustion and the picture had to be finished by Gore Verbinski - it was sheer boredom that got to me.

Like so many other epic movies, this is another example of an empty spectacle and, to be honest, it's not that spectacular.

Pearce, a turn of the 20th century inventor, is so obsessed with time that he is always late. He is rushing to meet his girlfriend to propose. They are robbed ...

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