This is one weird film. Weird and scary. Scarier
than that Witch film, probably the scariest film I've
seen this summer (though it's been a tame summer on
the fright-o-meter). The fine sound engineering does
a splendid job toward this goal.
Lift-off looks promising with a cast of three
actors I adore. The simply irresistible Charlize
Theron, rock solid actor Johnny Depp and strong
supporter Joe Morton from "T2" fame. Johnny goes up
in space, has an incident, comes back a little weird,
or is it wife Charlize who's paranoid? A creepy
psychological thriller.
Surprise, it's no "Apollo 13." Though the film
hooked me heartily in the beginning, I grew tired in
the middle (though scared), and while the twist
ending was indeed something I did not expect at all
-- it wasn't something I cared for either.
Great concept, awesome actors, fine dialogue, but
a lack of that right stuff.
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