The Butterfly Effect 2 has clearly been designed as throwaway dvd/cable filler with the sole purpose of exploiting connection to the first film. The director chosen is cinematographer John R. Leonetti who previously ventured into the director’s seat with Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) and the subsequent Annabelle (2014), Wolves at the Door (2016) and Wish Upon (2017). It should be noted that all three of his directorial outings have been sequels to other films. (Johns brother Matthew was cinematographer on the first Butterfly Effect). Leonetti’s direction is bland – The Butterfly Effect 2 has the look of a tv movie. The cast are largely unknown faces. It is hard to think that there is anything here that would have interested cinematic audiences as The Butterfly Effect did.

Even aside from that, The Butterfly Effect 2 manages to make the personal drama and time travel themes seem the least exciting that it possibly can. The first film was exceedingly vague as to the process whereby Ashton Kutcher was able to time flip but at least when the main plot kicked in it held a compulsive fascination, whereas here there is not even that. Indeed, without having seen the first film, it would be almost possible to understand what is going on here by watching this film on its own. Eric Lively’s timeline flips seem completely uninteresting – all centred around the yawn-inducing questions of whether he gets ahead or remains a browbeaten lackey in his failing start-up job and whether girlfriend Erica Durance decides to move to New York or stay with him. The film suffers from the critical failure of engagement – one just ends up regarding its central character and his problems with a big “who cares?”

The Butterfly Effect: Revelations (2009) was further sequel.
 

Trailer here:-