“The Time Traveler’s Wife” is a captivating love story of how love transcends time. From the best-selling book by author Audrey Niffenegger, but don’t pay too close attention to that part as most movies do not follow dead on to the novel. Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams are directed by Robert Schwentke in a solid love story that could have reached extraordinary limits, but seemed to fail early on.

A Chicago librarian Henry (Bana) suffers from a rare genetic disorder which causes him to be sent through time for unknown reasons and amounts of time. He attempts to build a stable future with a young girl Clare (Rachel McAdams) who has known him since she was a child. When the two meet in the present it is an awkward meeting as Clare knows Henry, but Henry does not even recognize Clare. Things are quickly explained, but the encounter does lessen the chemistry between the pair. Despite his attendance problem Harry and Clare grow fond of each other, eventually getting married. It’s not your typical matrimony, as Henry disappears for weeks at a time and Clare must learn to live in a lonely marriage. When Clare becomes pregnant and Henry is involved in an accident things only become more of a struggle for the love birds.

Having high expectations for a whirlwind romance, I was deceived. The love Henry and Clare shared was disgraced from the minute they met in the library. The first encounter should have been laid out better to offer more suspense and passion. Instead we are rocketed into this world Clare lives in, where they have known each other for years. Already missing the connection it was hard to follow their fairy tale romance. Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams portrayals were good, as they seemed to have the chemistry flowing. “The Time Traveler’s Wife” offered more romance than Sci-Fi making it a definite chick flick, not one of the best, but seemed to have a lot of the females talking.