and Kramer have finished the repairs after coming to learn that Doniger has attempted to sabotage their attempts; Doniger fears that when the students' stories become public, ITC will suffer great financial losses. As the machine activates, Doniger races into it, attempting to block the teleportation, but instead he is sent back to 1357, where he arrives outside the castle and is presumably killed by a charging knight. Chris, Kate, and Johnston safely return. Later, the team returns to the Castlegard ruins, re-examine the sarcophagus, and find that Marek and Lady Claire led a prosperous life after the war and had three children: Christophe, Katherine, and François. Cast Paul Walker as Chris Johnston Frances O'Connor as Kate Ericson Gerard Butler as André Marek Billy Connolly as Professor Edward A. Johnston David Thewlis as Robert Doniger Anna Friel as Lady Claire Neal McDonough as Frank Gordon Matt Craven as Steven Kramer Ethan Embry as Josh Stern Michael Sheen as Lord Oliver de Vannes Lambert Wilson as Lord Arnaud de Cervole Marton Csokas as Sir William De Kere/William Decker Rossif Sutherland as François Dontelle Patrick Sabongui as Jimmy Gomez Steve Kahan as Baker Production The battle sequences used medieval reenactors. Richard Donner limited the use of CGI in the film as much as possible. Composer Jerry Goldsmith, who had previously collaborated with Donner on The Omen, completed a score for the film - his final score before his death in 2004 - but it was replaced by a different score composed by Brian Tyler after Donner was forced to re-cut the film at the insistence of Sherry Lansing, the then-head of Paramount Pictures. However, both Goldsmith and Tyler's scores were released on CD. Reception Timeline performed poorly at the box office, only recouping $43 million worldwide from a budget of $80 million. Critical response On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 13% based on reviews from 144 critics. The site's consensus states: "This incoherently plotted addition to the time-travel genre looks and sounds cheesy". On Metacritic the film has a score of 28% based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade C+ on scale of A to F. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter called it "Glorious so-bad-it's-good entertainment." Roger Ebert gave it 2 out of 4, and wrote that it was "not so much about travel between