Sphere [Blu-ray] starring Dustin
Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L.
Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev
Schreiber
Pleased
From yet another derivative science fiction novel by Michael Crichton
comes this equally derivative and flaccid movie, in which three top
Hollywood stars struggle to squeeze tension and excitement out of
material that doesnt match their talents. Youre supposed to find awe and
mystery in Crichtons story about a team of scientists and scholars who
discover a 300-year-old alien spacecraft deep on the ocean floor, but
mostly you feel that this is all much ado about nothing. The exploration
team consists of a psychologist (Dustin Hoffman), mathematician (Samuel
L. Jackson), biochemist (Sharon Stone), and an astrophysicist (Liev
Schreiber), and when they enter the alien ship they discover a mysterious
sphere inside. What they dont know is that the sphere has the power to
manipulate their thoughts and perceptions, and before long the scientists
undersea habitat is a veritable haunted house of frightening visions and
creeping paranoia. Who can be trusted? What is the spheres purpose, and
why is it on the ocean floor? Sphere makes some attempt to answer t hese
questions, but the film is a mess, and it leads to one of the most
anticlimactic endings of any science fiction film ever made. There are
moments of high intensity and psychological suspense, and the stellar cast
works hard to boost the talky screenplay. But its clear that this was a
hurried production (Hoffman and director Barry Levinson made Wag the
Dog during an extended production delay), and as a result Sphere looks
and feels like a film that wasnt quite ready for the cameras. Though its by
no means a waste of time, its undeniably disappointing. The special edition
DVD includes audio commentary by Hoffman and Jackson and a behind-
the-scenes featurette, Shaping the Sphere: The Art of the Special Effects
Supervisor, exploring the alien ships design and creation by special effects
technicians. --Jeff Shannon
Features:
* Excitement runs deep when U.S. officials find and isolate a huge
spacecraft that plunged into the Pacific 300 years earlier. What is the c raft
s origin? Can there still be living intelligence aboard? Dustin Hoffman,
Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson lead an underwater expedition to
the mysterious object in this suspenseful adventure directed by Barry
Levinson (Rain Man) and based on Michael Crich
Was very pleased with Sphere. It was received in timely manner and in
excellent condition.
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