Just found this review, guess I will just give it a miss then. Thanks for saving me the price of a rental.
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It isn't often you see a film that's so silly you can't think about it without hyperventilating. Such a one is Timeline, a fantasy thriller based on the Michael Crichton novel.
It's about a group of sexy young archaeologists, including Paul Walker and Frances O'Connor, working away on their dig, who discover a worm-hole in time that takes them back to 14th-century France; they have to go there to rescue their professor, played by Billy Connolly. They must naturally dress in authentic clothing to blend in - ragged medieval hoodies for the chaps and a super Maid Marion outfit for Frances - and when they arrive they find a castle under siege, and someone actually says: "There's a goodly number of trebuchets, my lord!"
The most bizarre thing is poor Anna Friel, who has to play a French aristocrat called Lady Claire. She has a French accent that, to put it mildly, needs a bit of work. When she shouts "Allez!" it sounds exactly like EastEnders' Bianca shouting: "Ricky!"