Original, spectacular, and moving.

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 1998)

With fine performances that chilled, moved, inspired me, this film was so much more than a monumental visual achievement.
Alex Proyas has written, directed, and produced a film that is now in my all-time top ten list. Of course, my list is populated with visionary original works by Terry Gilliam, and other odd but spectacularly original films like Twelve Monkies. If you were awed by Twelve Monkies, this is a sure thing for you.
I recently had the misfortune of viewing Sphere. A pathetic, overwrought non-event bloated with big-star hysterics by the like of Dustin Hoffman. None of that here. I guess it is the big studio distribution system that hides gems like this from an audience starved for originality and quality.
See it.