About Time

A perfectly nice time-travel romance in which absolutely nothing goes wrong. The main character learns he can time-travel, he uses it to correct awkward moments in his life, roll credits. In most time-travel scenarios there’s a least some fear that you’ll... A. Run into yourself in the past, or B. Change history in some unchangeable way. The stakes should be a little higher here. I kept waiting for the wife to find out that many of the moments in her life were premeditated. That the man she married was not the perfectly smooth version that she knew. I was hoping that there would be a conversation about this, and this would create some trouble for the intrepid, time-travelling British hero. But, nope. Life is pretty easy for this dude. And ultimately, with all of this sci-fi ability to change the world right in the palm of his hand, it turns out  happiness is about playing one more ping-pong game with dad.