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| Release Date: |
February 13, 1998 |
| Genre: |
Sci-Fi, Action, Suspense, Horror |
| Running Time: |
134 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13. |
| Director: |
Barry Levinson |
| Writer: |
Paul Attanasio, Stephen Hauser, Kurt Wimmer, Michael Crichton |
| Cast: |
Ralph Tabakin, Michael Keys Hall, James Pickens Jr., Bernard Hocke, Huey Lewis, Marga Gómez, Queen Latifah, Liev Schreiber, Peter Coyote, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman |
1000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, scientists have found an unknown spacecraft, larger than anything known to man and almost 300 years old. It's American. The mystery doesn't stop there. In the middle exists a sphere, liquid yet solid. It can read your mind and knows you're worst fears. It can bring them to life. It can kill you. It just got released. Read more
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Movie Review
Grade: C+
Michael Crichton's novel finally hits the big screen with superb actors, great graphics, and horrifying results! The external scenes were really filmed under water, which added to the realism, and the sea animals looked spectacular. The story was compelling and original, though it seemed to mesh two potentially different could-be books together. The American spaceship is from the future, obviously, but the sphere is alien. The whole American spaceship thing is just an add-on story, something that should have been justified in it's own book. The ending was also really lame, and very unbelievable, as they just "forget" the sphere with their newfound powers. Sphere is good up to the denouement which just utterly sucks. Read the full movie review
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