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Rating: Robert Zemeckis is a skilled director and screenwriter. In his career, he has garnered good reviews and has made cult films like "Forrest Gump," which among other things, led him to win an Oscar. In 1985, he was nominated for Best Original Screenplay for "Back to the Future."
The film is a science fiction comedy well performed by Michael J. Fox (Martin McFly) and Christofer Lloyd (Emmet Brown known as Doc). To choose the protagonist, Zemeckis tried several actors. Originally, the role was supposed to go to Fox, but initially, parts of the film were shot with Eric Stolz. He quickly reversed his decision after noticing the "comic" inadequacy of the backup actor and thus forced Fox into a "tour de force" (during that period, he was engaged on another set).
Martin is a young man with ambitions of becoming a rock star, with a somewhat dysfunctional family and the mad scientist Doc Brown as a trusted friend. Doc has invented a time machine with the goal of traveling to the future. The vehicle requires plutonium to undertake time travel, and the scientist has stolen it from Libyans who are on his track to take him out. In a thrilling escape, after a shootout with the Libyans, Martin escapes with the time machine and finds himself in the past. He meets his father and mother as teenagers and risks radically altering his existence by initially making his mother fall in love with him. The goal is to make his mother fall for his father to preserve his existence, but above all, to return to the future. It won’t be easy, but with the help of the young Emmet Brown, initially puzzled and incredulous, Martin will achieve incredible unexpected results for himself and his family once back in the future.
The music by Alan Silvestri is splendid, perfect for this fantasy film. There are some ingenious twists that make the film compelling and engaging with very involving suspenseful moments. Fox plays the part of the extra-temporal hero who ends up saving, besides himself, just about everyone. The film is full of tiny details that pay homage to old movies with similar themes, from the protagonists' names to little objects scattered around the sets. Brilliant direction and well-structured special effects enrich a plot of sure interest. Fox is suitable and effective, Lloyd perfectly immerses in the role of the mad scientist and entertains, coloring his performance. Many fans love the film, which will have a couple of sequels, of good success, though qualitatively inferior in terms of plot. The box set with the entire trilogy is available on the market.
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