History Film / Millennium

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Dr. Mayer]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Louise

* IdiotBall: [[spoiler: Both times people from 1989 get hold of stunners they act stupidly. Bill - an NTSB agent who should know better about tinkering with evidence - stuns himself jamming the casing into the wiring, and Dr. Mayer connects up an object which he himself already knows and has said is a weapon, and inadvertently kills himself]].
** In Doctor Mayer's defense, he didn't believe paradoxes could exist as a physicist. An in-universe version of ScienceMarchesOn perhaps?
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Susan, the youngest member of the team, commits a HeroicSacrifice]]
* LostForever: Any times already visited.
* MrExposition / AsYouKnow / CaptainObvious: Sherman explains why Louise has to go back and meet bill for the first time, and even subtly lampshades his role as he does so.
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Invoked. You can't go back to any time anyone has already time-traveled to, or even viewed from the future.
** Averted though, when people being pulled off a doomed aircraft from 1963 see their doubles being loaded on.

* WeOnlyHaveOneChance: At traveling to any specific segment of time.

* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: You can only go back to or even watch things from a time period ''once''. Once you've been to or watched events happening at, say, 5:05am-5:10am on a certain day no one can go back to those five minutes... ever. Also, previous paradoxes are incredibly damaging to the present (future) time
* PollutedWasteland: The future.

* TemporalParadox: Doesn't bother anyone in the time they happen in, but are like earthquakes in the future.

'''Coventry:''' (to Sherman) Louise is as subtle as a lead pipe.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Dr. Mayer]]

* CrapsackWorld: The future is dirty and rusty.
* {{Cyborg}}: Many of the people in the future have aspects of this. It's not even really clear if Sherman is a robot or some sort of human cyborg. (In the book, it's clear he's a robot)

* HaveWeMetYet: Louise tries to keep Bill from unknowingly changing the future by meeting, seducing, and sleeping with him. Unfortunately, the next time Bill encounters Louise, its actually the first time ''she's'' ever met him, so she rebuffs his affectionate approach. The fact that during their (to Bill, anyway) ''second'' meeting she treats him like a complete stranger confuses Bill just enough to cause the disruption in the time stream Louise was trying to prevent in the first place.
* IdiotBall: [[spoiler: Both times people from 1989 get a hold of stunners they act stupidly. Bill - and NTSB agent who should know better about tinkering with evidence - stuns himself jamming the casing into the wiring, and Dr. Mayer connects up an object which he himself already knows and has said is a weapon, and inadvertently kills himself]].

* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Invoked. You can't go back to any time anyone was already at.
** Averted though, when people being pulled off of a doomed aircraft from 1963 see their doubles being loaded on.

* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: You can only go back to or even watch things from a time period ''once''. Once you've been to or watched events happening at say 5:05am-5:10am on a certain day no one can go back to those five minutes... ever. Also, previous paradoxes are incredibly damaging to the present (future) time

This film [[SimilarlyNamedWorks is not to be confused]] with either the mystery show ''Series/{{Millennium}}'', or ''TheMillenniumTrilogy'', a series of books and films of Swedish origin.

Unfortunately, someone accidentally left a stunner on the 747...

It's up to Louise Baltimore to get the missing stunner back and make sure it doesn't end up in Bill's hands.

Meanwhile, about a thousand years in the future, mankind is on its last gasp. Pollution is so bad it is not only killing everyone but they can't exist without it, either. Plans were made to use TimeTravel to pluck the living but soon-to-die passengers from aircraft and put them in storage so they can eventually be sent somewhere far enough in the future (or elsewhere) that the pollution had broken down and the human race can start anew. This is tricky business, though - ''anything'' out of place can cause a time paradox which results in massive, damaging earthquake-like tremors in the future they came from.

* TheFilmOfTheBook: Originally a short story, a book was written, then a movie made.

* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Susan commits a HeroicSacrifice]]

* MrExposition/AsYouKnow/CaptainObvious: Sherman explains why Louise has to go back and meet bill for the first time, and even subtly lampshades his role as he does so.

Meanwhile, about a thousand years in the future, mankind is on its last gasp. Pollution is so bad it is not only killing everyone but they can't exist without it, either. Plans were made to use time travel to pluck the living but soon-to-die passengers from aircraft and put them in storage so they can eventually be sent somewhere far enough in the future (or elsewhere) that the pollution had broken down and the human race can start anew. This is tricky business, though - ''anything'' out of place can cause a time paradox which results in massive, damaging earthquake-like tremors in the future they came from.

* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: You can only go back to or even watch things from a time period ''once''. Once you've been to or watched events happening at say 5:05am-5:10am on a certain day no one can go back to those five minutes... ever.

* TemporalParadox: Doesn't bother anyone in the time they happen in, but are like earthquakes in the future.

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