Aging Into (Almost) Parody: Never Say Never Again!

The Good: Decent concept, Good cast
The Bad: No stellar performances, Very predictable plot
The Basics: Sean Connery’s return to the James Bond franchise was Never Say Never Again, which is an erratic, not terribly exciting spy film.


One of two James Bond films released in 1983, Never Say Never Again takes a lot of hits for presenting an older James Bond. As Sean Connery was lured back into the role of James Bond for a film that used elements from the original script for Thunderball, Never Say Never Again went against Octopussy at the box office (they were released a few months apart) and it is derided by fans of the James Bond franchise because it was not produced by the same production company as the rest of the franchise. While there are problems with Never Say Never Again, the general concept of the film is actually one of the better ones.

Like similar films, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (reviewed here!) and The Dark Knight Rises (reviewed here!), Never Say Never Again focuses on an aging protagonist who has become disillusioned with his purpose and place in an organization that he once believed in. James Bond in Never Say Never Again is essentially working in retirement (he has been retasked from the field to teaching the next generation of spies for MI-6). The themes of aging are executed with tongue-in-cheek humor (as Bond is assigned to destroy free radicals in his body and go on a diet), so Bond is not portrayed with a brooding quality (in contrast to Admiral Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan or Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises). This diminishes the chance to bring some real character development to 007, James Bond, by truly shaking up the character. Instead after several jokes about his change in status from active agent to teacher, Bond returns to form.

After a training exercise in which Bond finds himself stabbed by the woman he was tasked to rescue, an aging James Bond is called before M for evaluation. The new M is not a fan of the “00” spies and after spending most of his time teaching, James Bond is told to start living a healthier life. Meanwhile SPECTRE has regained much of its former power and it has a new plot brewing. Having made an Air Force officer into a heroin addict and replaced his eye so it has the same retinal pattern as the American President, SPECTRE infiltrates the same hospital/spa that James Bond is staying at. When Bond is attacked by a SPECTRE thug, SPECTRE Agent 12 gets away with the Air Force Agent. After Jack infiltrates an Air Force facility, he successfully steals two warheads before he is killed by Fatima (12).

Extorted by Blofeld and billionaire industrialist Maximilian Largo, the Brits decide to reactivate the “00” program and bring James Bond back into the field. In an attempt to find where Blofeld has moved the bombs, Bond hunts Maximilian Largo. He gets close to Domino Petachi (Jack’s sister), who is dominated (essentially held hostage with emotional manipulation and weapons) by Largo. Largo sets a psychopathic Fatima against Bond and after dispatching her, Bond infiltrates Largo’s boat. Aided by Domino (who no knows about how her brother was used and killed by Largo), Bond works to recover the nuclear bombs and stop Largo.

Never Say Never Again includes all of the familiar elements of the James Bond film and, unfortunately, it does so without any genuine flair or originality. There are the obligatory chase scenes and the soundtrack that telegraphs the scene’s emotion. Bond is suitably heroic and is aided with gadgets from Q (in this case a pen gun and a rocket-enhanced motorbike). He beds a number of women based on his alleged charisma (Connery does not use his twinkling eyes or energetic smile to get laid in the film, so his multiple encounters feel more forced than organic) and is up against an adversary who has virtually limitless power and a tragic flaw. While he is obsessed with Domino, Largo’s real flaw is that he is batshit crazy and executes a ridiculous plan for SPECTRE that, because they go along with it, only seems to undermine SPECTRE’s fearsome quality. They are not the anti-MI-6; they are just an international cartel of thugs who have attracted psychopaths and crazed billionaires to their ranks.

In true James Bond form, Never Say Never Again includes a villain who is stupid enough to divulge his plans to the hero before he leaves James Bond to die. Why Largo does not kill Bond after telling him the location of the bombs is something of a mystery. But what Never Say Never Again truly lacks is a ticking clock, a sense of tension. Sure, Bond is hunting for stolen nuclear weapons, but Largo is in no hurry to use them and the film lacks a dramatic edge that makes the viewer actually care about the ordeals Bond is going through. Until the very end of the film, Bond is not on a particularly tight timetable to accomplish his goals.

Also unremarkable in Never Say Never Again is the acting. Sean Connery wanders his way through the role of James Bond and Kim Basinger is stiff more often than not as Domino. Bernie Casey and Rowan Atkinson steal their scenes as Felix Leiter and Small-Fawcett, respectively, though their parts are essentially sidekick and comic relief. Klaus Maria Brandauer plays Largo without any flair and between his performance and the lines for the character, Largo never truly comes to life. The failure for the film to address the key question of why Largo (who is rich enough to have virtually anything in the world) would get mixed up in the convoluted SPECTRE plot at the same time he is expanding his business enterprises to dominate the oil industry severely undermines the character. Largo becomes just a generic billionaire industrialist villain in Never Say Never Again.

While there are moments that Never Say Never Again shows potential, much of the film is slow-moving and uninspired, making the viewer wonder why Connery bothered to return to the franchise at all . . . instead of being thrilled that he showed up for the film.

For other James Bond films, please check out my reviews of:
Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Diamonds Are Forever
Live And Let Die
The Man With The Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
A View To A Kill
Die Another Day
Casino Royale
Quantum Of Solace
Skyfall

3/10

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A Gruesome Build-Up To An Imaginative Last Act: The Last Temptation Of Christ!

The Good: Direction, Acting, Final act
The Bad: Alternatively boring and gory, A LONG way to go before it gets original and interesting.
The Basics: The Last Temptation Of Christ works its way up to being a theological recasting of Jacob’s Ladder.


My relationship with the film The Last Temptation Of Christ is an interesting one. Until tonight, I had not seen the movie, but it had a profound effect on my development as a liberal and as a rational human being. When I was in middle school, The Last Temptation Of Christ was released theatrically and one of the people in my class, a Ukrainian immigrant, was part of the local protests against the film. His mother and him were out picketing against the showing of The Last Temptation Of Christ in the local art theater and I remember asking him, “What is so bad about the movie?” And he told me that the movie was blasphemous and I asked him what about it was blasphemous. He dodged the question with pat answers and I distinctly recall asking him what he saw in the film that was so disturbing as to be worth protesting, a question I asked with my usual youthful, earnest curiosity. His response was that he had not seen the movie and that caused me to ask instantly, “How can you criticize and protest something you have not even seen?” Yup, that was the moment I credit as being the moment I became a fully rational being.

So, tonight, my wife and I sat down to watch The Last Temptation Of Christ. I had been told – in the intervening years – that it was something of a death dream, like Jacob’s Ladder (reviewed here!). Having finished it, my disappointment comes more from the fact that the hype was once again far greater than the film that it surrounded. The Last Temptation Of Christ is hardly an audacious film. It is not as creative as Dogma (reviewed here!) and I cannot really understand why the film garnered so much controversy. It is not as gory or pointless as The Passion Of The Christ (reviewed here!) and most of the film is a surprisingly straightforward retelling of the story of Jesus Christ. It takes a very long time to get around to being anything truly original. It is also worth noting that I have never read the novel upon which The Last Temptation Of Christ is based; this is a pure review of the film only.

Jesus Christ is a crossmaker for the Romans who has no particular agenda. Judas, working for the Zealots, killing Romans and working against the Empire, is given orders to kill Jesus. Judas does not carry out the directive and journeys out into the desert. There, he is tempted by the devil for forty days and forty nights and is then baptized by John The Baptist. After that, he begins preaching love and the philosophy of the ax (cutting away the old ways), which makes him a target for the Israelites.

Eventually, Pontius Pilate sentences Jesus to death on the cross, where the devil appears before him. Then, he has a vision of his life as an ordinary man who is able to marry, have children and live under the radar while his disciples are persecuted.

The Last Temptation Of Christ features a ridiculous disclaimer at the outset announcing to the viewer that it is a work of fiction and given how it resolves itself, it is hard for me to imagine why the Religious Right actually had an issue with the film. The Last Temptation Of Christ is much more the story of Jesus Christ than it is not. The final resolution puts Jesus on the familiar path after a remarkably brief interlude where Jesus experiences temptation. It’s a lot of boring and familiar story until the last act.

The characters of Jesus and Judas in The Last Temptation Of Christ are interesting characters. Jesus is filled with self-doubt and the desire to get the voices out of his head. Willem Dafoe plays Jesus with uncertainty and in a way that makes it almost seem like he is schizophrenic in the beginning. Harvey Keitel’s Judas is mercenaric and angry and he and Dafoe play off one another exceptionally well. The Last Temptation Of Christ is a good character study of an uncertain character finding his way and a righteous, angry character.

But we see that in innumerable movies. The fact that it is set in biblical times and/or that the characters are recognizable religious icons is unimportant. This is, for the most part, just another retelling of the story of Christ and its original aspects hardly justify the first two hours of the film. Martin Scorsese directs the film well, but the story is hardly as audacious as it originally promised.

On the Criterion Collection DVD, The Last Temptation Of Christ has an engrossing commentary track and featurettes. For those who find the source material engaging, the bonus features are impressive enough to make one want to buy the DVD.

For other films with a theological bent to them, check out my reviews of:
Ben-Hur
Constantine
Left Behind

4/10

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© 2013 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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The Star Wars Saga Has Legendary Qualities, But Is Far From Perfect!

The Good: Great story, Pretty awesome special effects, Generally decent acting
The Bad: Moments of character and acting.
The Basics: There is a timeless quality to the Star Wars Saga, but there are serious enough issues that make it anything but perfect.


I love Star Wars. I have the figures, I have the movies, I've gotten autographs of many of the obscure stars (Michael Sheard just months before his death, as it turned out!), and I do enjoy the mythological sensibility to the story of the fall. But, for one who grew up on it and one who enjoys the universe, I am prepared to commit the ultimate heresy that every other reviewer knows, but few fans admit:

The Star Wars Saga is not all that great.

Sure, it's good. It was groundbreaking at the time, but have you actually watched it? If you've never actually sat down and watched the Star Wars Saga in order, it is the saddest collection of clueless law enforcement officers running around getting slaughtered by a military force that becomes more inept over twenty years leading into a rebellion of people who are willing to give up at the drop of a dime. Seriously. The sheer number of times characters say something is "impossible" or "can't be done" or whine about the state that they are in before actually trying is shocking. And for those looking for a great hero story, we all know that the quality of the hero is judged by the quality of the villains. Who are the villains in the Star Wars Saga? A bunch of people who look pretty cool, but are even more inept than the heroes! Darth Maul? One kill and dead. Darth Tyrannus? One arm and dead. General Grievous? One kill, nope that's been edited out, one escape and dead. Who is the villain in the Star Wars Saga? A one thousand year-old geezer and his robot apprentice.

But I jest. When the Star Wars Saga works, it works because it tells an essential character story of how easily good may be perverted into the forces of power and control and how hope may lead to the redemption of that corrupted soul. It tells the story of how common plight leads to romance and how sidekicks can be universally annoying be they amphibian or droid. The Star Wars Saga illustrates that when you push the boundaries of what is known, you may create a work that will capture a generation simply by being ambitious and daring.

Cinema has lost that. Arguably the most original attempt in recent years, The Chronicles Of Riddick Saga (reviewed here!) was thwarted from continuing by commercialism. The Star Wars Saga tells a pretty universal story set in a distant galaxy populated by humans, aliens, robots and an astounding array of creatures. But, like The Matrix (reviewed here!), a full series was created based on a decent original idea. Unlike the disturbingly constructed The Matrix Saga, George Lucas - the creator of the Star Wars Saga - had the first trilogy constructed before the first film was filmed. While he had the prequel trilogy conceived, he had not fleshed it out, resulting in a six-film Saga that tells the story of Anakin Skywalker, but is plagued by minutia between the two trilogies that do not quite add up. The inconsistencies are disturbing enough to stymie even the Star Wars loyalists, but not enough to drive it into unwatchable territory.

For those unfamiliar with the Star Wars Saga (now available on Blu-Ray), the six movies that comprise it are:
The Phantom Menace
Attack Of The Clones
Revenge Of The Sith
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return Of The Jedi

The Phantom Menace explores a galaxy far, far away that is brimming with conflict. After a thousand years of peace, the Galactic Republic is in turmoil when the planet of Naboo is besieged by the capitalist forces of the Trade Federation. Republic negotiators, two Jedi named Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, arrive to try to lift the Trade Federation blockade but they are nearly killed. Escaping Naboo with the planet's Queen, the Jedi make it to Tatooine where they discover a young boy, Anakin Skywalker, who is powerful with the Force, the mystical power utilized by the Jedi. Amid political machinations that insinuate that the Jedi's enemies - the Sith - have returned to the galaxy, Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon and Anakin return to try to liberate Naboo.

Ten years later, Padme Amidala, former Queen of Naboo is returning to the political capital of the Republic to vote on an important bill when she is almost assassinated. The Jedi Anakin and Obi-Wan are assigned to protect Amidala as the Republic heads toward war with Separatists who wish to leave the Republic. Obi-Wan searches for the bounty hunter who put the hit on Amidala and discovers a clone army being built for the Republic that no one knew about. As Obi-Wan becomes embroiled in political and military machinations that were directed by the Sith, Anakin and Padme fall in love.

Revenge Of The Sith begins two years later as the Clone Wars rage on and Anakin and Obi-Wan have to save the Supreme Chancellor from a powerful Separatist general. As the Jedi try to end the war and uncover the Sith Lord who has evaded them for the past decade, Anakin is seduced by the power of the Dark Side of the Force using his secret wife, Padme, as the tool of his undoing.

Twenty years later, A New Hope finds the galaxy under the control of the Galactic Empire where a small band of rebels fights against the forces of power and control. When Princess Leia acquires the plans to the planet-destroying Death Star weapon, she tries to get the plans back to the Rebellion, but is intercepted by the Empire's forces, most notably Darth Vader. Leia manages to get the plans into two droids who end up on Tatooine in the possession of Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke and Obi-Wan try to get the plans back to the Rebellion, but are intercepted by the Death Star and must save the galaxy from the massive weapon.

The Empire Strikes Back has the Rebellion fleeing from the might of the Empire as Darth Vader scours the galaxy for Luke Skywalker. As Han Solo and Princess Leia try to evade the Empire, Luke Skywalker goes to a remote world where he learns to use the power of the Force. But Darth Vader is intent on luring Luke out and he uses his friends to entrap the young man.

The Saga concludes with Return Of The Jedi wherein Luke and Leia try to rescue Han Solo from the gangster Jabba the Hutt. As the Rebellion goes on the offensive against the new Death Star - which is still under construction - Luke, Leia and Han journey to Endor for a final showdown with the Empire and Darth Vader.

The Star Wars Saga has essentially two groups of characters in the two trilogies, but when viewed together is the story of the downfall of Anakin Skywalker from the Jedi with the most potential to a tool for the Empire. George Lucas, who wrote the Saga (at least the story), does an excellent job of telling the story of Anakin using pretty standard mythological storytelling. Anakin begins as a boy of mysterious origins with the insinuation of incredible powers. As he refined his powers, Anakin illustrates an impatience which is a pretty classic tragic flaw and he develops with the potential to be the most powerful instrument for good. The forces of evil, of course, seek to exploit that and the Star Wars Saga illustrates well how the feelings of love may be used by malevolent forces.

What does not work when the Saga is viewed together is how loss keeps Anakin under the thumb of the Sith Lord. In The Empire Strikes Back, the Emperor reveals - through new scenes added into the film - that he has essentially lied to his apprentice for twenty years and there is no significant character reaction. Given that the character's tragic flaw has much to do with seething rage, it is virtually unforgivable that the character has none of that evident when the truth is revealed.

This, of course, is a problem with the fact that the story was retroactively created. The prequel Trilogy has to explain how Anakin Skywalker fell from grace and when it fits back into the original Trilogy, there are dramatic inconsistencies. On the character level, this seldom works. This is also why the Prequel Trilogy neglects the spiritualism of the original Trilogy. In the first (or second, depending on perspective) Trilogy, the Force is a powerful field and belief that empowers the Jedi. In the Prequel Trilogy, thousands of Jedi are completely duped by a single Sith with many of the Jedi revealing tragic flaws that - according to the later installments - would have led them to the Dark Side. In other words, the principles of using the Force to create a policing body work out philosophically, but not in a practical application.

The Star Wars Saga pioneered all sorts of special effects and on Blu-Ray, they look absolutely incredible. From stop-motion model work through computer-generated characters, the Star Wars Saga is a visual masterpiece from George Lucas and the other directors in the Star Wars films.

As for the acting, the Star Wars Saga utilizes some pretty incredible talents - Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and James Earl Jones - exceptionally well. It also introduced many new talents who deliver as well as they can. Hayden Christensen, for example, performs somewhat stiffly in Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith. Where the Saga succeeds on the acting is how the performers completely invest in the universe being created. All of the actors look like they believe in their setting and with the virtual characters, they interact with complete seriousness, making it easy to invest in the galaxy.

On Blu-Ray, the Star Wars Saga includes commentary tracks for each film and featurettes on the creation of each movie and the Saga as a whole. There are also forty-five deleted scenes and animatics which are kept separated from the films. For a Saga that George Lucas has so continually tweaked, it is almost ridiculous that the movies do not have the scenes actually integrated into the new versions of each movie.

This leads to the exploitative quality of the Star Wars Saga. George Lucas is a shrewd businessman and while this is the first time the Saga has appeared all together on Blu-Ray, the films have been available in at least two different forms on DVD. Most people will not have the equipment needed to get the additional value out of the Blu-Ray versions. More than that, beginning in February, the films will be rereleased theatrically in 3-D. Will Lucas add new scenes for the 3-D release? Will he integrate deleted scenes into the 3-D release? Who knows? What is virtually undeniable is this: even if the only change is that a 3-D print of the Star Wars Saga is created, those 3-D versions will be released after the Saga is once again completed as 3-D Blu-Rays undoubtedly with more bonus features to exploit the same customer base for their hard-earned dollars for what is essentially the same product.

In other words, the Star Wars Saga is complete now. It has been for more than half a decade and the change in technology has not fixed the problems that the Saga has had. Instead, those who already have the six DVDs are not truly going to need to reinvest in the Blu-Rays and until a complete reimagining including a complete rewrite, much like the new Footloose (reviewed here!) completely remakes the Saga from the original, is created, there is no real need to buy the new boxed set.

For other cinematic Sagas, please visit my reviews of:
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
The Back To The Future Trilogy
The Indiana Jones Trilogy

7.5/10

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© 2011 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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The Perfect Film For The Plight In Our Times: The Empire Strikes Back

The Good: Tone, Effects, Characters, Plot
The Bad: Occasionally dated dialogue
The Basics: A must see film of enduring greatness, The Empire Strikes Back is one of the rare sequels which exceeds the promise of the original film.


If you're actually reading this review, it begs the question, "Where have you been?" That is, how could you have not experienced one of the most culturally relevant films of our time by now? It seems silly to those who do not take the time to consider this film to say that it is one of the most culturally relevant pieces of our day, yet it truly is. More than most films in the last thirty years, The Empire Strikes Back has gone a long way to shaping and influencing individuals, artists, and moviemakers.

It's easy to lump The Empire Strikes Back into the science fiction category and write it off because it contains strange puppets and robots. That's a horrible mistake to make. The truth of the film is that it's a pretty grim view of humanity and the perversion of spirituality by a bloated military-industrial complex.

Better than A New Hope (click here for my review of that movie!) The Empire Strikes Back is the continuing story of the Rebellion against the Empire. The story focuses on the fledgling Luke Skywalker who is trying to learn about the power he just began to explore in A New Hope and the troublemaker Han Solo who is continually hunted for his crimes that precede his introduction in the series.

The story takes our intrepid heroes - if they are even that - from a frozen wasteland where the Rebellion suffers a crushing defeat and is on the verge of destruction. Forced to part ways following the Imperial blockade of Hoth and the annihilation of personnel and resources, Luke goes in search of a mentor who can teach him how to use the Force. Han and Princess Leia, on the other hand, simply flee. Pursued by Imperial forces into an asteroid belt, Han and Leia confront their feelings for one another and are astounded to find the Empire chasing them through the dangerous asteroid field. After a cunning move, the Millennium Falcon escapes to Bespin. While Han is on Cloud City, reunited with an old friend, Luke meets his mentor, a diminutive creature named Yoda, and begins to learn the Force. This manifests itself in an ability to see the future and the suffering of his friends, among other things. And it goes from there.

If you haven't seen this movie, what are you missing? You're missing a great story that is told using interesting characters and it's more than just a war story. This is the essential fight for freedom and those fighting for it are more faceted than idealized. That is to say, the characters have depths and flaws. Leia is still a snob, Han Solo is a selfish renegade who is desperate to save his own skin, and Luke, Luke is quite naive and that idealism leads to the ability of the enemy to crush his spirit in the last act.

The film is more than science fiction, it delves into what motivates people to resist authority and more than that it explores the consequences of that resistance. Far too many times there are good guys and bad guys. Here there are bad guys. Darth Vader spends much of the movie strangling high ranking Imperial officers, Boba Fett is vicious in his pursuit of Han. But the good guys, they suffer. They suffer from internal flaws and imperfections as well as the results of their attempts to fight the powers that be, in the form of the Empire.

The essential characters in The Empire Strikes Back include:

Luke Skywalker - an apprentice to a mystical order of Jedi, most of whom are long dead. Weak in his powers, he is encouraged by the spirit of his dead mentor to seek the only living Jedi left in the galaxy, a recluse named Yoda,

Princess Leia Organa - a politician and freedom fighter, she is on the run from the Empire and has taken up a leadership in the Rebel Alliance which seeks to restore democracy to the galaxy,

Han Solo - a smuggler and a rogue who has associated with the Rebels and is wanted by the criminal underworld that runs part of the galaxy. Han has begun to feel romantic attraction to Leia and he feels the bite of the class difference between them,

and Darth Vader - No longer under the thumb of Grand Moff Tarkin, Vader ascends to be the effective head of the Imperial military. Ordering the troops, Vader now controls the killing might of the Empire and he has turned his attentions to finding Luke Skywalker, for destroying the Death Star and because he believes the threat posed by the young warrior may undermine the Empire.

The Empire Strikes Back succeeds, in part, because of the strength of the cast. Harrison Ford, who plays Han Solo, and Carrie Fisher (Leia) have great on-screen chemistry. The addition of Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian) establishes a new rogue element into the mix that adds more substance and reality to the film. And Anthony Daniels, who plays C-3P0, acts so well while encased in a metal costume that he is able to genuinely emote and get the viewer to care about his fate.

But it is Mark Hamill who does the heavy lifting in The Empire Strikes Back. He is forced to emote the most and his emotional journey while training on Dagobah is portrayed in such a way as to be interesting. Hamill makes watching a guy do a workout interesting using his facial expressions, emoting with his eyes and convincing the viewer of the strength of his convictions (and later of his love for his friends) with minimal lines.

And, more than anything, The Empire Strikes Back is fun and the end it a refreshing change from the ordinary! Not until Star Trek Deep Space Ninecomes along will there be such a dismal fate for the bulk of would-be heroes as those in The Empire Strikes Back. And this film is enjoyable to rewatch, for more than just grim fascination. This is where the Force has spirituality instead of the science of The Phantom Menace, this is where Han was a true rogue (as opposed to the poser he was converted into in the Special Edition of A New Hope where Greedo fires first) and the characters make sense, like Leia still being an aristocrat instead of a practical rebel.

Are there flaws? Not really. Sure, some of the dialog - especially between Han and Leia - has some camp value to it, but so did the 80s. And this is a film that transcends that and is a statement. One of the statements it makes is war is never easy or without consequences. One of the statements I'll make is you must see this film.

On DVD, The Empire Strikes Back comes loaded with a commentary track and a ton of featurettes on the making of the film.  The latest DVD release also contains the original theatrical version, as well as the ultimate Special Edition of the film from the first DVD release.

For other science fiction films, please check out my reviews of:
Inception
Dark City
Twilight

10/10

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© 2001, 2008,2010 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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