Sphere Reviews

could watch this film over and over,great cast, good location,5 star

worth watching for anyone really,

It's alright !!!

It's OK and not a bad movie. Quite dissapointing at the end though. There were few suspense moments in the middle...not bad.....

Okay, but nothing special

This film gets you curious because a team finds a sphere inside a spaceship and you question why a sphere would be inside a spaceship. Those going into the sphere suddenly are affected in odd ways. They then realise why things are happening the way they are and why and have to make a decision. Its curious at first, but gets kinda boring for the most part

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Terrible

Starts off really well. A crashed, apparently alien ship 1000 feet under the Pacific Ocean. Turns out to be a ship from the future which has inadvertently travelled back after entering a black hole. All good so far, no complaints. Then it goes downhill - BADLY.

The crew find the sphere on board. An apparent alien intelligence capable of imbuing anyone who enters it with the ability to make anything they want to happen, actually happen.

Maybe the book was better at developing the plot but having an analytical mind, there are a few things about the story that just scream IMPLAUSIBLE to me. This is supposed to be a plausible story about how the government would handle the investigation into a crashed alien ship. The story seemed very rushed from the point where they entered the crashed ship.

Personally I'd have started by investigating the crew of the crashed ship, the ship itself, the technology, the data recorder logs (most of which were never actually looked at). Finally when I've learnt EVERYTHING I can about the ship and where it came from, then AND ONLY THEN, do I turn my attention to the strange sphere they seem to have picked up while the ship was out in space.

But alas no. Instead, they do a VERY, VERY, VERY brief investigation into the crashed ship.....just enough to learn that it's human and from the future. Then, to hell with the rest of the investigation........they jump straight onto investigating the sphere. Add to that the fact that I found the plot around the sphere quite boring, silly and similar stuff has been done before by better writers. Summed up in one sentence: Great plot idea, very badly wasted on the film. Summed up in two words: UTTER BOBBINS.

A faithful adaptation of a good story

'Sphere' is an adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. The plot concerns the discovery of a spaceship at the bottom of the ocean, and the team of scientists flown in to examine it. The aquatic setting is reminescent of Cameron's 'The Abyss' - they share the claustrophic atmosphere of deep-sea habitats cut off from the surface and thus left to deal with strange goings-on without communication with the outside world.

This is an enjoyable psychological horror story with SFnal overtones; the titular sphere plays no real part in the movie save to impart certain abilities to the human characters. These abilities are what the film is really concerned with. Essentially, this is a film about people, about human weaknesses, and how these manifest destructively.

There are many moments in this film that encourage a sense of wonder or real fear - the exploration of the crashed spaceship and the discovery of the sphere being good examples. The characters are well-played, although the imposing Samuel L. Jackson as a brilliant mathematician seems slightly odd - I was never really convinced by his portrayal of this, especially in contrast to Hoffman's psychologist and Stone's biochemist.

This film works well and is an enjoyable watch; the only major criticisms to be made are that the apparent intellectualism of the film is mostly stylistic and has no real depth, and also that the conclusion lacks the ambiguity of the novel.

[Highly rated reviewer]

TERRIBLE!

complete sh*t

DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE

psychological thriller- sphere

very good thriller, that sets you needing to know who the bad guy really is. People are dropping like flys but your not sure who is responsible. The plot involves an alien craft with a perfect golden sphere inside it, hidden for hundreds of years under the ocean. Keeps you guessing and highly enjoyable viewing.

Sphere indeed...

I watched this film when it first came out in the cinema. Having Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L Jackson and wow.. Sharon Stone must be grreeeat.

First 15 mins was thrilling, a space craft crashed on earth in 19th century, even better when they found a coke can inside the space craft, got me glued to the film.

As the story unfold, about 30 mins or there after I realized the plot and thought to myself, can't be that simple but found out to be.

The film had right actors which good acting, good effects but what a simple main plot.

Giving 1 for the film and 1 for the actors.

Sphere

A spacecraft is found at the bottom of the ocean. The military flies in a team of scientists to examine it. In the spacecraft they discover the "sphere". "It's life Jim - but not as we know it". Good, Sci-Fi stuff.

Love this film

I really liked this movie I thoght it was a good thriller with an evil twist and it did show the limitaion of man if you looked beyond the movie and what it was trying to say and "only human " now has a whole new meaning.

Great movie.