TIMELINE

If I could turn back time . . . I'd see this one all over again! TIMELINE Directed by Richard Donner Paramount, in release Cynics mutter that Master and Commander sullies Patrick O'Brian's source by changing the flags of the menacing Acheron from Stars and Stripes to Tricolore, and transposing the action from the War of 1812 to 1805-a savvy move in this post-freedom-fries era of ally-cosseting. In Richard Donner's 1999 Timeline, based on Michael Crichton's century-hopping novel, an expert from the company responsible for chrono-displacement technology instructs a rescue team, "Nothing modern ...