Mel Gibson (“Lethal Weapon”, “Mad Max”) stars in this so and so movie about time travel. The film doesn’t bring us anything new and/or anything exceptionally well-done and that’s a real shame as it isn’t a bad movie by any means.

In “Forever Young”, we meet a test pilot named Daniel McCormick (Gibson) in the year 1939. After his girlfriend is injured in a car accident, Daniel becomes part of a freezing experiment as he wishes to be woken when she is better. However, he finds himself in the year 1992, over 50 years after being frozen. He meets two young boys named Nat (Elijah Wood “The Good Son”, “North”) and his best buddy Felix (Robert Hy Gorman) as well as Nat’s mother Claire (Jamie Lee Curtis “Halloween”, “True Lies”). Daniel finds himself going through age spurts and at the end as he goes to find the woman who he has being waiting to see the F.B.I are after him to do some scientific research.

Mel Gibson is reasonably good as Daniel McCormick but the make-up for when he’s old is horrible. Elijah Wood is pathetic as Nat but then again, I think that’s down to the script. Jamie Lee Curtis is okay I guess as Claire but certainly nothing special.

The ending of the film starts with a reasonably good car chase with some great music but then it turns into a goofy mess before having an alright attempt at redeeming himself. The premise of the film is sadly nothing new; I can name quite a few movies that feature this idea of man being frozen, for example “Sleeper” with Woody Allen and the 1990 version of “Captain America”. Even the idea of a man in a world different to the one he knows has been used in other films such as “Total Recall” and “Back to the Future”. If there had been excellent execution, I would have had nothing wrong with the fact that it’s very unoriginal.