Not a bad film at all, but did I miss the huge twist in this?I had read that it contained a major plot twist, and I was expecting one, but I really seem to have missed it.I realise it may have been regarding the origins of the attacks, but this was not the earth shattering experience that a really good twist should be.Anyhoo.....

When Norman and Beth read the flight recorder, it is reflected in Norman's helmet.The writing is the right way around and reads left to right.But we are seeing from behind the floating see-through screen, and seeing the writing reversed from right to left, so the reflections on Normans faceplate should be the same as we see it through the screen.There is no way it could be reflected the way it is.That is assuming I remember the scene correctly.

Here is an idea: could any of the individuals who entered the sphere manifest the deceased back to life and themselves back to the surface? This is so obvious that the movie immediately loses its frightful theme.

This movie reminded me of "Forbidden Planet" sans Robby the Robot...I mean..it's the same principal...man discovers a power that's so powerful that when tampered with, it makes every subconscious thought become real...no matter how terrible it may be.

I liked it up until when it became too obvious what was going on. The ending was really, really dumb.

The best parts are at the beginning, when it is completely unknown what is going on. My favorite scene is when they were communicating with the unknown entity via an "Instant Messenger" like set-up.

I too disliked the ending. Surely choosing to forget what had happened wouldn't solve the problem - they will still manifest their fears next time they fall asleep. Either they'll go mad wondering why it happens, or the military will work out that it must have something to do with what happened to them and take them in for experimentation.

The part of the movie that made me furious was when Dustin Hoffman's character swam underwater without a protective suit. Peter Capaldi's character had told them early on that if anyone swam without protection they'd freeze to death in a few seconds, yet he stayed down for minutes. Even allowing that, he should have been so cold that he shouldn't have been able to haul himself out of the water afterwards, yet he had no problem and walked about afterwards without even shivering!

Well if he believed that he could in his mind he could do it right. If his mind can conjour up psysical matter it can keep his body temperature up.

The ending was a bit of a cheat because it basicaly took a page from all of those stories about people getting 3 wishes that end when they say "I wish I'd never found that dumb thing".

Man, I thought this was a good movie! I liked the ending! I couldn't believe Jammer actually thought Event Horizon was better than this movie!

I think that this is the Michael Crichton movie that most closely follows its book, but not the best Michael Crichton movie. I did however think that this movie was allright.

Well Luigi, whoever Jammer is, I gotta agree. I do think Event Horizon beats this movie hands down.

Well, to each his own, I guess, cf.

BTW, I don't know why I mentioned it in passing without some explanation in May, but Jammer is the nickname of Jamahl Epsicokhan, whose reviews for Trek, Andromeda, and some movies like those two can be found at www.st-hypertext.com

***I too disliked the ending. Surely choosing to forget what had happened wouldn't solve the problem - they will still manifest their fears next time they fall asleep. Either they'll go mad wondering why it happens, or the military will work out that it must have something to do with what happened to them and take them in for experimentation***

Not exactly, in the book the power is not a thing the sphere gave to them it was a mental thing.

It was inside them all along and the sphere just taught them how to use it, so the ending still works.

I think it was a good movie. I'd read the book before, so I knew the solution, but it was still interesting to see how they figured it out.

And yes, I think the solution works. By forgetting *everything* they forget that they learned how to use the power, so the power will no longer be there.

The whole premise of this movie makes no sense at all. Where did the Sphere come from? Was that ship really from the future? How did it end up in the 1990's?

I've never read the original novel, therefore, I cannot offer an opinion on it.

Space, yes and they fell into a black hole

So they found the Sphere in space, before falling into that black hole?

If I recall correctly, that was it.

I wonder why they bothered with that time travel bit.

The ship could have been an alien one, and they could have told the same story, IMO.