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Millennium Overview
Time-hoppers from the future, led by Cheryl Ladd, are abducting airline passengers about to crash, and transporting them a millennium hence in order to reseed a future blighted by environmental disaster. This is a dangerous business, plagued by the specter of accidentally creating time paradoxes, which could throw the future out of whack. Unfortunately, they've lost a couple of the stunners they use to subdue troublesome passengers, and these fall into the hands of a curious physicist (Daniel J. Travanti) and an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board (Kris Kristofferson). Cheryl Ladd must retrieve these devices before a time paradox wipes out her world, but manages to complicate things by developing a romance with Kristofferson. All of which is very intriguing, having come from the short story, "Air Raid," by science fiction luminary John Varley, who also is credited with the screenplay. The part about airline abductions to save the disastrous future is straight from the original story, and the rest is expanded (you wouldn't say extrapolated) from it. The results are not very happy. About a third of the film is maddeningly wasted by repeating action from a different point of view. Seems natural when there are disparate timelines to deal with, but here nothing is added by the conceit. Only Travanti turns in a creditable performance as the physicist, bent on proving his theories about the future. He seems hungry for discovery, which is one of the things you want from a science fiction story, that sense of awe. But here it's just, "Aw, shucks!" --Jim Gay
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John Varley time travel story "Millennium" which came both films like this and as a full-length novel with the title of 1980 is one of his best pieces of writing.
Varley's initial concept and 'published the story "Air Raid" and was asked to write the screenplay for this film version: about the same time the film came out he published an extended version of the short story, but lining up with the film including some rather largeissues and in more detail in several areas, like the novel "Millennium."
If you've read the novel and wonder whether the measures on DVD, it is not practical for filmmakers to get the full scope of the novel in this film adaptation, but they did a good job. Most political comment on aviation security in the book, particularly those on the battle between Ronald Reagan and the air traffic controllers did not make it in this movie, and even thequasi-religious aspects of the book. But most of the guts of the story did.
In particular, the film is faithful to the plot and tone of the novel, including the novel central and some of the most exciting action scenes. Both the book and the film brilliantly captures some of the most memorable scenes of history, and consisting of one or two quite funny moments, none of which I can begin to describe without spoiling the story.
Kris Kristofferson is great asair crash investigator, who discovers some unusual abnormalities in the wreckage of a plane. Cheryl Ladd is as brilliant as the mysterious woman who sleeps with him and then disappears. As the story continues we learn more about the researcher's past, and why the mysterious woman reminds him so someone remembers her childhood.
I can recommend both the book and the film. If you might want to try both I do not think it makes any difference what order youit.
DVD extras are a bit 'basic: they include a trailer, filmographies short of Kristofferson, Ladd, and one or two others, a brief summary of what the producer was trying to do, and an alternate ending, which differs only for the background of the quote of Winston Churchill giving the last words of the film.
Varley made a joke about this book (and film) in one of his more recent novels, "Mammoth," which I can also recommend.
millenium - beryl - I ordered DVDs and tape millinium and received them in 3 days of ordering. thanks for the quick service amazon
everyone must see this movie!!! - AwkWord-O - Spokane Valley, WAAMAZINGLY FABULOUS/CHEEZY/HILARIOUS/WEIRD/80 'S SCI-FI-horror of everyone should see this! THE "reviewer masked" wrote an AMAZING REVIEW! His review READ !!!!!!
Futuristic - C. Threet - TexasThis film shows that change the future can kill you. It also shows us that it is important that we take care of our planet.
Just as listed - S. Pittman - I have searched high and low for a DVD of this classic airliner cult! You do not get much better than this. Produced in very good condition ... just listed. There were no hiccups with the order, shipment or delivery. Definitely will use Amazon again!
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