H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) travels through time to 1979 in hot pursuit of Jack the Ripper (David Warner), who’s hell-bent on continuing his murderous rampage in a whole new century. In the hands of director/screenwriter Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), Time After Time is a solid romantic romp. I like McDowell and Warner in anything, and Mary Steenburgen is fine as the movie’s love interest. I’d prefer if Jack the Ripper were portrayed a little more menacingly. It might help to make the movie more suspenseful. The score was surprisingly large and lush (I didn’t know Miklos Rozsa was still scoring movies in 1979). Though it’s billed as a suspense thriller, I think it succeeds more as a romance. It’s a very charming movie, thanks largely to McDowell’s and Steenburgen’s sweet performances.