MOVIE COMPANY: Warner Bros.
CAST: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyoute, Queen Latifah, Liev Schreiber
DIRECTED BY: Barry Levinson
PRODUCED BY: Michael Crichton, Andrew Wald, Barry Levinson
RATING: PG-13
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120184
TYPE OF MOVIE: Sci-Fi, Thriller
DURATION: 135 minutes
When a spaceship is found 1000 feet below the Pacific Ocean it is carbon dated to be over 400 years old. The American army believe it to be a UFO. As a result a team of scientific experts are rushed to the scene. A team that was formed ten years before, only to humor the American government. The team is taken down to search the space craft and when doing so they come across a giant metallic sphere. They figure that the space craft has time travelled as they find a computer keyboard which says, “Made in USA, 2048” Also they discover that the spaceship travelled through a black hole. When they discover how to enter the sphere they do so and once they come out they hold strange powers of manifestation. (IMDB)
DVD EXTRAS:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Digital Sound
• Commentary by director Dustin Hoffman and actor Samuel L. Jackson
• Production notes
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Documentary “Shaping the Sphere: The Art of the Visual Effects Supervisor” (Video 1.33 : 1, Dolby Digital 2.0)
• Widescreen anamorphic format
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S):Â Hidden trailers:
Enter the “Reel Recommendations” screen and select the “Actor” option to view trailers from All The President’s Men and Sleepers. Select the “Directors” option to view a trailer from Above The Law.
DVD REVIEW:
I really tried to enjoy this movie. I figured, so many talented stars…this movie must be good but somehow the chemistry between the three didn’t seem right. Also, to hear Dustin Hoffman star screaming with fear was hard to fathom. Not sure why.
This is by means NOT an action film. Not like ALIENS. In fact, it’s more about your dreams becoming real and everyone around you experiences what you dream (may it be good or bad).
If there was anything that I enjoyed was hearing Dustin Hoffman say in the director’s commentary that since he’s a professional actor, to be part of a sci-fi, he will not do it again. “How can an actor do 35 takes for one scene” was something Hoffman couldn’t understand but developed a respect for actors who do these type of movies. The documentary of the “shaping of the sphere” was pretty neat. To know how they built everything was pretty cool. Then there are trailers and as mentioned, the commentary with Hoffman and Jackson.
All in all, I didn’t like the movie that much. If you are a sci-fi fan, you might want to rent it first.
THE MOVIE:Â C-
THE DVD EXTRAS: C
THE DVD OVERALL:Â C-