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Clockstoppers is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Jonathan Frakes and produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Julia Pistor. The film stars Jesse Bradford, Paula Garcs, French Stewart, Michael Biehn, Robin Thomas, and Julia Sweeney.

The NSA-funded Quantum Tech (QT) Corporation has slated a project to develop Hypertime, a technology which allows the user's molecules to speed up to the point where the world appears in standstill. The NSA's leader Moore ends the project due to its high amount of risk. However, QT's CEO Henry Gates plans on using the technology to control Moore and dominate the world. He uses the prototype to stretch the weekend in order to give his lead scientist Earl Dopler time to fix the remaining glitch in the technology after his henchmen Richard and Jay prevent Earl's incognito departure at the airport. However, Earl being in Hypertime for too long has resulted in him aging rapidly in real time, with his molecular age continued at the same rate despite time slowing down.

However, initially unknown to Gates, Dopler had sent a prototype to his former colleague Dr. George Gibbs. Gibbs' son Zak, with whom he has a strained relationship, discovers the watch accidentally and initially uses it for fun. Zak wins the heart of Francesca, a new Venezuelan girl at the school. Once Gates finds out about the leaked prototype, he sends his henchmen after Zak, who break into his house and search for evidence. Upon learning about the ulterior motive of QT Corporation, Zak sets out to warn his father of the danger he could be in.

A chase ensues, with Zak crashing the van into a river, thus damaging the watch. He awakes in the hospital and barely evades Jay and Richard. He then goes in search of a hiding spot, after having been accused of stealing a van by the police. In a bid to retrieve the watch, QT Corporation enlists the help of national security agencies and portray Zak, his father and Dopler as wanted fugitives. Zak goes on the run with Francesca, locating the hotel that Gibbs was staying at, with Dopler also in pursuit of Gibbs. However, QT reach Gibbs first and kidnap him.

Zak and Francesca wander the streets aimlessly before being captured by Dopler in the garbage truck. However, Francesca knocks Dopler out and she and Zak take Dopler hostage. Dopler reluctantly agrees to help save Gibbs, helps mend the broken watch, and creates guns which can take someone out of Hypertime and back into normal time. The guns are loaded with paintballs filled with frozen nitrogen, and the low temperature "freezes" a person back into normal time.

With Dopler's help, Zak and Francesca break in, but get caught by QT. The two are thrown in a cell with Zak's dad. Zak accelerates while in Hypertime and becomes "light", helping the others break out as NSA agents arrive and defeat Gates' goons. Gates knocks Francesca out of Hypertime and prepares to do the same to Zak and his dad until Dopler arrives and defeats him. Gates and his henchmen are arrested, and the watches are confiscated.

Dopler uses the machine he was building to reverse his aging effects of Hypertime, but it inadvertently changes him back into a teenager (Miko Hughes), meaning he will have to live with the Gibbs family for a few years, though he still has the voice of his full grown self. Zak enters a relationship with Francesca, reconciles with his father, reunites with his family, and earns a car he wanted. As Zak speeds off in his car with his sister Kelly, Francesca, and younger Dopler, it is revealed that he has not returned the watch and continues to have fun in Hypertime.

The film has garnered mixed to negative reviews. Based on reviews from 85 critics collected by the rating website Rotten Tomatoes, the film was given a score of 29%, with an average score of 4.8 out of 10, with its Critic Consensus calling it "A pleasant diversion for the young teens, but a waste of time for anyone older".[1] Metacritic calculated an average score of 40 out of 100, based on 24 reviews.[2] Clockstoppers opened at a disappointing Number 5 at the box office ranking in $10,108,333 USD in its first opening weekend, the following week it went down to #7 where it spent a week more. The film grossed a total of $38.8 million against a budget of $26 million.[3]

This "science fiction" movie for kids is so full of nonsensical science it actually seems more appropriate to call it a fantasy film. And parents, beware: "Clockstoppers" won't do anything to help your little one become a future science-fair champ; if anything, it has the potential to retard a generation's understanding of the theory of relativity.

Here's the premise, brought to us by those rigorously scientific minds at Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon: There's these watches, see, and when you put them on you start moving real fast. Now, watch this opening scene closely as a professor explains Einstein's theory of relativity using a Volkswagen Bug product placement.

The slow moving Bug, from the perspective of a fast Ferrari, seems not to be moving at all. Got it? Good. So what have we learned today, kids? Product placement plus pseudo-science makes the movie studios money.

And let's say this human body looks a lot like this movie's hero, Zak Gibbs (Jesse Bradford), and that the hands of light-speed-moving Zak start to make trouble for a snarky meter maid. What's going to happen when Zak touches this meter maid?

Of course, this is all supposed to be science fiction. But when "science fiction" takes advantage of the fact that its intended audience hasn't yet had much science, it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre.

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