The Lovers

R

Released Mar 13, 2015

1h 45m

Action

Adventure

Romance

Sci-Fi

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13 Reviews

19%

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An impossible love blooms across two time periods and continents.

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David Ehrlich

Time Out

As one of the film's many forgettable characters so eloquently puts it, "This stinks worse than an oyster's fart."

Rated: 1/5

Mar 17, 2015

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Michael Rechtshaffen

Los Angeles Times

There's a veil of artifice clinging to every aspect of "The Lovers," a thoroughly unconvincing time-traveling epic costume drama pairing a miscast Josh Hartnett and Bollywood beauty Bipasha Basu.

Mar 12, 2015

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Graham Fuller

New York Daily News

Suckers for romance likely won't complain, but this Josh Hartnett time-travel epic is nuts.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 12, 2015

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Emine Yildirim

Today's Zaman (Turkey)

If you're aching to see a tragic tearjerker romance, then the only tears you will shed will be of frustration.

Feb 29, 2016

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Dan Mecca

The Film Stage

A slew of half-baked characters and a derivative, white-man-in-a-foreign-land plot line make it hard to recommend, despite a handful of inspired moments.

Rated: C

Feb 23, 2016

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Shawn Hazelett

Under the Radar

Joffe seems well aware that this is a story not worth telling ... the filmmaking is so hopelessly uninspired that Hartnett's Scottish accent is somehow not its most glaring flaw.

Rated: 2.5/10

Mar 28, 2015

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Liam D

It isn't the worst thing but it's rather dull and writer and director Roland Joffé (You and I, There Be Dragons) had done better work

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

09/12/22

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Audience Member

Good time travel movie. Released in the UK as the Time Traveller. 2020 and 1778 India. With a magical ring spanning time and space.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Audience Member

Good time travel movie. Set in 2020. And 1778 India. Was on Amazon Prime.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/22/20

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Audience Member

Okish time travel drama set in 2020 and 1778 India. With a magical ring.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/22/20

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uncle p

Story/Screenplay: (2.5/5) A complex romance drama that bridges time. Would have been better if they just localized the events to the 1700's. Duration/Tempo: (3.5/5) At 1 hour and 49 minutes, it's an average length movie that felt about the same. Not bad. Cast & Crew: (3/5) Josh Hartnett performed well. Summary: (2.5/5) The concept of love spanning time is not new to film, but it fails in this movie.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

The lovers is a confusing mess of a film. The movie tries to put its heart in the right place but the movie comes off too confusing, poorly paced, with a very cheesy set design. I’m sure the ambitions of the project were a lot bigger than what finally is on screen.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/08/19

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Synopsis

An impossible love blooms across two time periods and continents.

Director: Roland Joffé
Producer: Dale G. Bradley, Grant Bradley, Paul Breuls, Pam Collis
Screenwriter: Ajey Jhankar, Roland Joffé
Production Co: Corsan, Limelight International Media Entertainment
Rating: R (Language|Some Violence)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 13, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 7, 2017
Runtime: 1h 45m

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