I'll follow you down is a time travel film which is original in its story and a well scripted, well crafted mystery. It stars Haley Joel Osment and he is absolutely terrific. It also stars Gilliam Anderson and Rufus Sewell who both give outstanding performances. The story has a great pace to it easing us into the characters and setting the story up nicely for the rest of the film to unfold. If you like sci-fi mystery dramas then this will not disappoint you. It has just the right amount of each to keep you completely engaged for the whole film. Based on the fact I love sci-fi, a good mystery and a good family feel drama I am rating this an impressive 9 out of 10. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!!

Gabriel (Rufus Sewell) disappears during a business trip. His wife Marika (Gillian Anderson) is left to raise their son Erol. Twelve years later, Erol (Haley Joel Osment) is a student of his grandfather Sal (Victor Garber). He tells him about his father possibly traveled back in time to 1946. Erol starts working on their own time machine while his girlfriend Grace informs him about her pregnancy. She fears his interference changing their relationship.This does not have enough tension. It has no intensity. Haley Joel Osment is limited as the leading man. The lead in the first act is actually Gillian Anderson. This is basically a long extended sci-fi TV. In fact, I would cut it down to 46 minutes and make a pretty good hour long TV episode. This doesn't have the flash of even the smallest sci-fi indies. The premise is fine but there isn't enough to bulk it up.

My dad was flipping through movies on Amazon and came across this one. As a fan of Gillian Anderson, I was surprised I'd never heard of this movie before. We decided to watch it and weren't disappointed. I had no expectations going in, and I ended up enjoying the movie for what it is. The acting was good, as well as the characters. I didn't expect the whole time travel thing, so that was a pretty cool development. Side note: just a warning for those who have a hard time with the subject of suicide- there is a suicide in this movie. You don't actually see the act, but you see when the body is discovered and it's a very emotional scene.

I'll Follow You Down is NOT a typical scifi-suspense-thriller. There are no automatic weapons or time cops. There is no high-tech research centre. There is in fact no "action" as delivered by most cinema these days, and only minimal, situationally necessary violence. The film is presented and paced like a stage play. The first hour (or more) is used to set the stage for the decisive events that occur in the final act, if you will. It is certainly slow-paced and "talkie," and calls the viewer back to another, earlier era in film-making. Honestly, the acting is not gripping, the characters aren't deeply developed, and suspension of disbelief in the technological ideas is difficult, if not impossible. Nonetheless, there is a level at which this modestly-budgeted made-in-Canada effort does succeed. That is, I found myself truly caring how everything would play out for the characters, and for how they would resolve their struggles with their dilemmas... which were mostly further losses following (minor spoiler) a father's disappearance early on. The themes were universal enough to be engaging. I'd say that the majority of the issues addressed were unstated, and the film's resolution of most of them was equivocal at best. The time travel theme has been much better developed elsewhere, yet, this film still had something, perhaps unique, to say. Finally, the "disappeared" father must face a stark dilemma, and the final minutes of the film deliver the moral of the story, which, if simplistic, did not ring false, at least in "this timeline." In terms of contemporary productions, an effort like Continuum develops a far more sophisticated and complex vision of time travel --- one that makes you stretch, and stretch again. This film doesn't do that at all, nor does it attempt to. The idea of time travel is really secondary to the primary and overriding moral theme. But... please allow me to conclude it like this: Had this been a stage production, it would in fact have worked --- and that is not easy to say for most ideas developed in science fiction film. This is a slow boiler for a quiet and contemplative evening, and not much at all like most other science fiction movies.