Clockstoppers
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Metascore
40 out of 100

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5.9 out of 10

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  • Starring: French Stewart, Jesse Bradford, Paula Garcés
  • Summary: When Zak (Bradford) discovers a high-tech watch that speeds up his body's molecules so that the rest of the world seems frozen in time, it's like having the ultimate super power -- until he winds up in a true race against time! (Nickelodeon)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 24
  3. Negative: 5 out of 24
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Jan Stuart
    70
    Exceptionally user-friendly for the technologically challenged among us and rides over its less inspired patches on a wave of cheeky humor.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    60
    A competent, unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    After the first hour, it starts to convince you that time really can stand still.
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  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert K. Elder
    38
    With Clockstoppers, Frakes hobbles along with a high-concept film that doesn't live up to its potential.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. Tss5078
    8
    Clockstoppers seemed like a Back To The Future rip off to me, but I'd wanted to see the it because I am a Sci-Fi geek and it was directed by Star Trek's Jonathan Frakes. My expectations weren't very high and the story, based in Science Fiction, had the potentially of being too hard for audiences to understand. The writers decided to go another way with it and put this unique, experimental technology in the accidental hands of a teenager, and then marketed the whole package to young adults. It sounded a bit sketchy to me too and that's why it took me almost ten years to see it, but what I learned from this film, you can never judge a DVD by it's cover. Clockstoppers combines Einstein's Theory of Relativity with teenage rebellion in an action packed film that will really leave you on the edge of your seat. The story starts when a former student of Prof. George Gibbs sends him a prototype, of a watch, that speeds up your molecules to the point where it looks like everything else is standing still. Prof. Gibbs soon leaves to go on vacation when his son finds the watch and wears it out, thinking it's a normal watch. Once he learns the truth, other Clockstoppers show up to try and kill him, and that's when the film really gets going. The acting and special effects aren't really what draws you into Clockstoppers, it's the story, which throws you in every single direction and leaves you craving more. This was a film that was at the bottom of my list, that I watched because it was short and it was streaming. I was just looking for something to watch before bed, and what I found instead was a terrific Science Fiction adventure that fell way under the radar.… Expand
  2. Guy!
    2
    A perfectly good idea, but sadly wasted. This movie is like a matrix movie intended for 4-year-olds.

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