The read
Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do. Most of the 414 1990s science fiction movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo bay, things begin to fall apart.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes12%
Metacritic35/100
Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do.
1,904 audience votes
Key crew
- Barry LevinsonDirector
- Paul AttanasioScreenplay
- Stephen HauserScreenplay
- Elliot GoldenthalOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Dustin HoffmanDr. Norman Goodman
- Sharon StoneDr. Elizabeth 'Beth' Halperin
- Samuel L. JacksonDr. Harry Adams
- Peter CoyoteCaptain Harold C. Barnes
- Liev SchreiberDr. Ted Fielding
- Queen LatifahAlice 'Teeny' Fletcher
- Marga GómezJane Edmunds
- Huey LewisHelicopter Pilot
- Bernard HockeSeaman
- James Pickens Jr.O.S.S.A. Instructor
- Michael Keys HallO.S.S.A. Official
- Ralph TabakinO.S.S.A. Official
Stills
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Shares: Time-Travel Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · Time Travel
Themes
space marinebased on novel or bookoceanextraterrestrial technologyparanoiatime traveltime bombalienpsychologistocean floordeepseaspaceship crash