Really quite excellent movie, with great film score from Miklos Rozsa, truly doesn't matter about the SFX quality in the few places they are used. Nicholas Meyer's tour de force. The actors are great.

I have mixed feelings about TIME AFTER TIME. On the face of it, it's the kind of film I really should enjoy. A fish-out-of-water adventure in which H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the then-present day via his real-life time machine, what could possibly go wrong with that? Well, the answer is plenty, and all of it is down to the script, which goes down the clichéd romantic route rather than the thriller route.So what we get is a long, slow-paced romantic comedy in which Wells takes time out to pursue the youthful Mary Steenburgen and almost seems to forget that he's supposed to be hunting a killer. The romantic scenes are quite sweet but I avoid the genre like the plague where possible and I just wanted them to get back to the action.Malcolm McDowell is a fine choice to play Wells and he reminds us that he's far more than the stock villain that he's usually stuck playing in Hollywood. Poor old David Warner has a great part but is barely utilised here. The dated special effects scenes are fun but there's far too much romance and too little in the way of genuine science fiction; the film as a result plods when it should zing.

Time After Time is directed by Nicholas Meyer. The film stars Malcolm McDowall, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen.This is a very interesting sci-fi thriller. I've always been curious about other time periods and am a big fan of time travel stories. In this film we get to see a characters reaction to arriving into what is for him a far distant future and how he reacts to what he finds there. Wells is overwhelmed by the advanced technology, the skyscrapers and lifestyle he encounters.Wells also learns that mankind has not advanced away from being violent, if anything violence has become more common in the future and has even lost shock value somewhat, due to how often violent acts occur now. It makes you realise that we can be advanced in some areas but still cannot get rid of violence. Perhaps we should focus more on getting rid of that impulse instead of focusing on creating new technology etc.London in 1893, novelist and inventor H.G Wells(Malcolm McDowall)builds a fully working time machine. Wells and some friends are shocked to discover that Jack the Ripper is one of their friends Dr. Stevenson(David Warner), Stevenson escapes into the future in the time machine. Wells decides to go after him to bring him back to face justice. Wells sees that the time machine has travelled to America in the year 1979. When the time machine takes him forward he discovers he's in the city of San Francisco. He begins his search for Stevenson.Wells is helped by Amy(Mary Steenburgen)who works in a bank and exchanges his British currency for him. The pair slowly begin to fall in love and Amy has to come to terms with the fact that Wells is from the past. Can Wells stop Stevenson and return him to his proper time?McDowall is excellent as the determined and bewildered Wells, David Warner is chilling as Stevenson, the scene where Stevenson explains to Wells that in the past he was a freak because of what he did, but here in the 70's he is an amateur is performed so well by both actors. Mary Steenburgen is very funny as Amy, the feisty woman who ends up embarking on quite an adventure. McDowall and Steenburgen fell in love while they made this and they married the following year.The film is a very good thriller and a great time travel story. My favourite scenes are where Wells go forward in time, the rotating restaurant scene and Wells chasing Stevenson through the hotel.There's many San Francisco locations featured in this film including the foyer of the Hyatt Regency Hotel(this also features in the Towering Inferno, High Anxiety and an episode of The Streets of San Francisco.)

"Time After Time" is the sort of escapist fantasy that you just need to suspend disbelief in order to enjoy--and very enjoyable this film certainly is. Additionally, it's quite romantic and is a movie I strongly recommend you watch.The film begins in London during the time of Jack the Ripper (David Warner). Coincidentally, the famous writer H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) has just built a working time machine and the Ripper uses it to avoid being caught by the police. But Wells knows he cannot allow this maniac to escape and travels to 1979 in search of the murderer. There, Wells falls in love with a lady (Mary Steenburgen) and enlists her help to find the killer.This movie works for a variety of reasons. It's certainly one of McDowell's best performances and it's nice to see him being vulnerable and more multidimensional than his other famous roles (such as in "A Clockwork Orange"). The film also looks and sounds wonderful (with a lovely score by Miklós Rózsa) and is wonderfully directed by Nicholas Meyer. Well worth seeing and a rousing adventure that both men and women will likely enjoy.