Wednesday, July 30, 2008
GALACTIC ROAD TRIP
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was John Carpenter's
with Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen.
I saw this when it came around. It is a great film.
Jeff Bridges is an amazing actor. Here he is an alien who takes possession of a human body so that he can get to his departure point before he dies.
His adoption of the human form is funny and painful to watch. Totally absorbing.
Karen Allen manages to balance the action and not be upstaged. She holds her own.
The premise is carried out with great skill and the road trip involved to get Bridges to his jumping off place is generic but special because he is the one doing it.
I liked it. I could easily see it again. A Jeff Bridges film fest? Could be sometime. This would definitely be in it.
That makes it a 4 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films
