Intriguing concept, but flawed results

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2000)

This movie is certainly not big in originality: most of its components are filched from different other sources, most notably the alien life force that probes the minds of humans and uses their guilty feelings against them, featured in Stanislav Lem's book Solaris (or maybe the movie based in it). This doesn't prevent it from being quite entertaining and indeed very scary, until more or less the middle, when suddenly the movie is plunged into sloppiness. It is as if they reached a certain point and didn't know very well how to go on from there. It is a pity, because this much inferior second part completely spoils the movie's effectiveness.