Always1989

57/100 Another Spielberg movie I found rather underwhelming, but like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, there's still enough good in here that I can see why some people like this movie, despite it not quite being to my tastes. However, I think here I should start with what I don't like, starting with Dreyfuss as the main pilot. He plays a good scientist character in earlier films, but here he's so blasé about everything, even dying, and worse, being forced to watch one Ted get to his girlfriend after him. Ted himself is played by Brad Johnson, another actor I don't care for. Holly Hunter seems to be the one character who's trying here, but Johnson just sucks all the chemistry out of their shared scenes through his apathy. Really, the one thing I thought of note about him was that he has the physique for a great Superman actor, and thus when he gets some glasses on I was reminded of Clark Kent. That was unironically the most his performance entertained me throughout, and it wasn't even because of the acting. Really, the main curse this movie suffers is the apathy to everything. Nothing is urgent, and instead we have tons of time to waste on scenes that last way too long and aren't even particularly good either. Even in scenes of action, it seems like planes crashing through swathes of trees is nothing to panic about. This movie starts off pretty good, and I was actually a decent bit invested in the characters, but it loses steam as it goes on and peters out into a sad and unneeded conclusion that hammers in the fact that this movie sadly fails to be anything beyond mediocre.