Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Sphere" (1998)Based on the 1987 novel by Michael Crichton (1942-2008), director Barry Levinson encounters new grounds with this underwater science-fiction drama, working with collaborated-before actor Dustin Hoffman, who performs undermined and coldly the character of psychologist Dr. Norman Goodman together with character ing cast Sharon Stone as zoologist Dr. Beth Halperin, Samuel L. Jackson and Peter Coyote as submarine captain going down as scientific team to the grounds of the deep blue sea, where a mystical golden "Sphere" hidden in a coral-overgrown spaceship, giving anyone, who witnesses its existence the power of foreclosure and putting thoughts into reality due to metaphysical mind-binding.The result of this unless beyond-belief promising motion picture of 80 Million Dollar production value, open for Warner Bros. Studio distribution set for December 1997, which had been pulled to be Mid-February 1998, turns into full-bodied character development by neglecting cinematography as sound design and an hammering score of Elliot Goldenthal, which leads to a mixture of enormous scene potential in character conflicts, which stay behind full-frontal expectations and even the occasional suspense catharsis, when one Samuel L. Jackson's character interpretation of mathematician Dr. Harry Adams, enchanted by the "Sphere", envisions parts of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" in order to endanger remaining crew outside the underwater station.The editorial by Stu Linder (1931-2006) comes along fairly, but uninspired with its 120plus minutes final cut. The director as the editor treats the adapted screenplay by Kurt Wimmer as psychological claustrophobic chamber play, without risking the scope nor boldness in action of competitive productions as the major focused and character-confronting piece of cinema "The Abyss" (1989) directed by James Cameron and even the more trivial horror-oriented science-fiction movie "Event Horizon" (1997) directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

CK Byrne I catching parts of this movie in years past and was intrigued enough to buy the DVD. Now having seen the whole thing, I regret spending the money. SPOILERS AHEAD! As a plot, it tries to do too many things in too little time. This may appeal to the Moulin Rogue mindset, but it leaves no room for character development. What's sad is there are so many aspects that COULD have been developed but were short- sold in interest of adding subplot after subplot (did it really further the story that Dustin Hoffman's character and Sharon Stone's character had a sordid past?) Hoffman's character diagnoses "Jerry" as a child who hasn't had interaction with people for 300 years which works for the plot at first, but then it's not "Jerry" but "Harry"... so why would Harry be acting like a lonely child? And this is just one of the many plot holes that are just too big to ignore. If it was Harry that killed the other scientists, and not Jerry, does that make Harry a homicidal maniac? And would two fellow scientists be sitting in the debriefing room acting "ho hum" and holding hands with this guy that just killed everyone? Oh! I forgot! EVERYONE entered the sphere at one time or another (or did they?) Ya' know, if the audience is intentionally "kept in the dark" about what's really going on so they can "empathize" with the characters on the screen, you're going to leave the audience with a "WTF" feeling when all that confusion is "explained" in a BS rough-shod, we- gotta'-keep-it-around-two-hours resolution. They were able to just "forget"??? How??? By wishing it?? Why do only SOME fears (and wishes, evidently) manifest while others don't? Stone's character mentions a fleeting thought of wanting to die and BOOM that threat materializes. And yet, during the ascent to the surface not one of them had a "fleeting" fear that there would be no boats, or that the mini-sub might be damaged and they might explode? "Oh but the magic in the movie is in the unanswerable questions." Horse hockey! Barry Levinson saw "Abyss" and wanted to make a similar movie, read Chrichton's novel and thought he could make a block buster but got in over his head and slapped the ending on so sloppily it looks like Bondo on a '63 Corvette Coupe. Don't waste your time. Watch the Abyss instead.

ergine The first 30 minutes create an enticing premise for a great sci-fi story. After that it just becomes a mess with very little logic. It is just a cheap thriller and the potential of the cast is never met.Even though it tries to be philosophical and psychological with echoes of other id-machine classics, it is sadly void of any real psychological meta-space.

SnoopyStyle Four specialists are brought together to investigate something on the ocean bottom. Dr. Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman) is the psychotherapist. Dr. Beth Halperin (Sharone Stone) is the marine biologist. Dr. Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson) is the mathematician. Dr. Ted Fielding (Liev Schreiber) is the astrophysicist. Captain Harold C. Barnes (Peter Coyote) tells the team of a possible spacecraft that crash landed 300 years ago. They discover a perfect liquid sphere in a ship possibly build by humans in the future. Along with sailor Fletcher (Queen Latifah) among others, the group is stranded on the bottom of the ocean.It's too slow and too long. The action has no thrills. The horror elements are lackluster. The cast may be superior but their work here is mediocre. The only good scene is Jackson fake out the Alien chocking scene. The rest is a long meandering sci-fi adventure without much adventure. A tighter story could elevate the tension and make this exciting.