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Sphere (1998) review
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An average movie

This is one movie which definitely had some potential but it turned out to be seriously disappointing after all. Indeed, at first, the whole thing was actually pretty exciting, it was an adaptation from a popular book written by Michael Crichton, there was a solid director (Barry Levinson) and the cast was really neat (Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah). Visually, it was also decent so you had all the ingredients to get a solid science-fiction feature. Unfortunately, even though the introduction was promising, it turned to be rather half-baked after all. Basically, it is a SF feature which tries to make you believe that it is actually smarter than your average B feature but it is not and, in fact, it is actually more boring than your average B feature. Slowly, you understand that the story goes really nowhere and even though the actors were decent and did what they could with the material, they couldn't really save this flick. Eventually, the final nail in the coffin was the terrible ending which was probably the worst thing in this already disappointing feature. To conclude, even though it could have been pretty good, it turned out to be pretty weak and I donโ€™t think it is really worth a look.

5/10
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Added by johanlefourbe
9 years ago on 17 December 2014 09:13