I got to watch this movie "The Butterfly Effect 2" in the theater last month. Not too much expectations, since it is a sequel and the stars are unknown. Just wanted to see how they would update the interesting concept of the first movie. Well, Eric Lively is certainly no Ashton.

Erica Durance, while beautiful, did not have much to show in terms of acting. The beginning was very slow. The first part where their relationship was established in a very prolonged manner. However, once the "butterfly effect" scenes were underway, the midportion was actually very interesting. It is just too bad that it led to a very illogical and unsatisfying ending. Certainly could have been better.

Did the guy that made this even watch the first one? Probably not. A load of aspects from the first one such as blackouts in their youth have been removed. Plus seeing the main character in their childhood sorta made you connect more with the character. Here you learn nothing about the bland main characters whatsoever. Erica Durance does give a good performance, but then she always does but that doesn't diminish the fact that the way the script is written we learn nothing about the main characters. It isn't even "The Butterfly Effect" its just had a few elements of it thrown in there. Take that away and you've got a bland corporate thriller with nothing worth watching at all.

Nick Larson (Eric Lively) and Julie Miller (Erica Durance) are camping with their best friends Trevor Eastman (Dustin Milligan) and Amanda (Gina Holden). It's Julie's 24th birthday and she's pregnant. She can't bring herself to tell him and he has to rush back for work. His tire is blown and they get sideswipe by a semi. He's the sole survivor. One year later, he's suffering headaches and his co-worker Dave is a douche. He travels back in time and avoids the accident. He returns to a year later in a different timeline.

It's the same movie with a different cast. The major difference is that everything is worst. Also the structure for Nick is all wrong. About halfway thru, Nick becomes a douche. He loses my rooting interest for him. His character stops being appealing to me.