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| Year: | 1985 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Genre: | Sentimental sci-fi |
| Starring: | Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr. |
| Rating: | 2/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089092/ |
| Tagline: | Enemies because they were taught to be. Survivors because they had to be. |
| Favourite line: | None worth mentioning |
Vaguely enjoyable sci-fi hokum that is really let down by the last 20 minutes.
The premise - two mortal enemies that have been waging war against each other find themselves trapped on an alien planet and soon realise that the best way to survive is to work together.
The individual performances, and the interaction between the main protaganists is fine, but the problem lies in the total shift in tone for the end of the movie.
Heh, guess what, we didn't need a bunch of special effects and grounding in humanity, the stuff that had gone before was just fine.
Still, I would say the first hour is well worth a watch, but the last third is a real let down.
Ultimately, this feels like an extended bad episode of Star Trek.
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