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Rating: Null/10 (23 November 2002)

If you are totally infatuated, OTT and obsessed with Jodie Foster, then this is definately the film for you. If you are just a fan, or you just like her, or are actually rather indifferent to her, it isn't.
Most of this long, long film are taken up with close-up shots of her face. Yes, there are other characters, Tom Skerritt, etc, but they are there only to give the appearance, the impression, that this is a bona fide movie, and not a video eulogy to her. The story is the usual implausible aliens cliche, complete with the inevitable clips of Hitler ranting which apparently always obsesses aliens so. Special effects are good, though limited. At one point I was fascinated by a colourful nebula; that lasted 2.4 seconds, then it was back to close-ups of Jodie.
And, during some of those long, silent close-ups, it occurred to me that Jodie Foster is not exactly the most beautiful face ever seen on celluloid, in fact far from it. Still, if we had to stare at Kournikova for two hours solid, no doubt her charms might start to wane too.
This is a film for which you will never see a 'Director's Cut'. Clearly the director was given carte blanche to indulge his mania for Foster's face, and the idea of cutting any of that out was anathema to him.

See this film and every contour, every crease of Jodie Foster's face will be etched in your mind forever