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5.0 out of 5 stars
Weird combination, August 31, 2004
This review is from: The Astronaut's Wife/Soldier (DVD)
Astronaut's Wife
No depth
An astronaut has some sort of weird experience in space. He comes back acting funny. Does any one notice? Not until he really goes off the deep end. How will it all end?
Just because this is one-dimensional and predictable does not mean you can not still say "stay in the car." And you don't think having twins is spooky? Rosemary's Baby never grew up to be a pilot. Yeah, and such common names like Spencer Armacost; what ever happened to Igor or Jeffery Dhalmer? They put in quiet space so you have time to think about what happened (or did not happen) and you call it dull. Do you really think that they would intentionally make a bad movie?
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Soldier
Entertaining with a tad of morality
It is interesting how we use Sci-fi to mask or enhance moral tales.
Sergeant Todd "the old model soldier" finds himself protecting the protectless:
Todd is the old model and disposed of in a trash heap that is occupied by kindly lowly people.
They find them self's befriending the befreindless:
The people have to invest time in Todd. But will he be able to change or at least understand their society? Worse still will he become a bad influence?
And together they defeat the defeatless:
Todd's new found friends, after being aggravated by his aggressiveness, snub him. Soon they find that they need his protection. Looks the planet is going to be used for war games and they are the vermin to be distorted.
Will and can Todd help?
Kurt Russell as Todd, takes this from what could have been a two dimensional future shoot-um-up and makes it a multidimensional story that one can relate to.
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