Lost in Space (1998)
Country: US
Technical: Rank/Panavision 130m
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Cast: William Hurt, Gary Oldman, Mimi Rogers, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham
Synopsis:
2058: the planet Earth, rapidly running out of the natural resources necessary for sustaining life, despatches a top scientist and his family in a spaceship to Alpha Prime, the nearest habitable world, so that he can set up a 'hypergate' capable of transporting colonists in no time at all. The mission is sabotaged, however, by Seditionists and the ship finds itself lost in space.
Review:
The film makes one glaring scientific gaff, that constellations might be recognisable at another point in space entirely, and breaks all the conventions of time travel movies without adequate discussion of the implications. Otherwise it is an unhappy marriage of family film and preachy sci-fi without enough commitment to either, and with an impossibly camp and inarticulate performance from Oldman.
Country: US
Technical: Rank/Panavision 130m
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Cast: William Hurt, Gary Oldman, Mimi Rogers, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham
Synopsis:
2058: the planet Earth, rapidly running out of the natural resources necessary for sustaining life, despatches a top scientist and his family in a spaceship to Alpha Prime, the nearest habitable world, so that he can set up a 'hypergate' capable of transporting colonists in no time at all. The mission is sabotaged, however, by Seditionists and the ship finds itself lost in space.
Review:
The film makes one glaring scientific gaff, that constellations might be recognisable at another point in space entirely, and breaks all the conventions of time travel movies without adequate discussion of the implications. Otherwise it is an unhappy marriage of family film and preachy sci-fi without enough commitment to either, and with an impossibly camp and inarticulate performance from Oldman.
Country: US
Technical: Rank/Panavision 130m
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Cast: William Hurt, Gary Oldman, Mimi Rogers, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham
Synopsis:
2058: the planet Earth, rapidly running out of the natural resources necessary for sustaining life, despatches a top scientist and his family in a spaceship to Alpha Prime, the nearest habitable world, so that he can set up a 'hypergate' capable of transporting colonists in no time at all. The mission is sabotaged, however, by Seditionists and the ship finds itself lost in space.
Review:
The film makes one glaring scientific gaff, that constellations might be recognisable at another point in space entirely, and breaks all the conventions of time travel movies without adequate discussion of the implications. Otherwise it is an unhappy marriage of family film and preachy sci-fi without enough commitment to either, and with an impossibly camp and inarticulate performance from Oldman.