Awesome flick

Rating: Null/10 (1 October 1999)

I'm serious folks. And I'm serious about my sci-fi.
Epic saga. Good guys. Bad guys. Special effects. It has all the regular stuff-- all done very well.
What elevates the movie is the fact that the director kept Bruce Willis under control. Bruce has shown, like in Pulp Fiction, that he can be a very good actor when he tones it down a bit-- not a lot, but enough so that he is not the center of the movie. BTW, I'm not a Bruce Willis fan.

Also, the sci-fi "alternate world" consistancy is excellently done. Almost none of the features of this alt world are explain how they work or why they came to be, everything makes sense. Nothing seems out of place and no one, not once acts out of character, not once. A supreme achievement for a sci-fi movie.
The characters, including the supporting cast are excellent. Each has some quirky thing going and they all pull off their characters so well. Gary Oldman's "mercenary gun seller's" pitch to prospective buyers is hilarious.

All in all, it is great fun. Do not pass on seeing it on the big screen (perhaps at a local campus?) if you ever get the chance, it is one of the few sci-fi movies that is worth the ticket price (if not more) these days.