I read this in its book form and it was a cracking read, sadly it lost something in its conversion to film, actually it lost quite a bit. The film is adapted from the book originally written by L.Ron Hubbard.
The human race has been conquered by the Psyclos. The Psyclos have ruled the Earth for over a thousand years, with the use of their incredibly advanced technology they seem to the slave human almost like gods. The Psyclos despise humans for their weakness and actually despise each other. they spend most of their waking hours thinking of simply out doing each other in an attempt at advancement. The use human slaves to strip the Earth of all of its natural resources and kill any humans that show the slightest resistance or independent thought. Jonnie is a wild human living free in the mountains until he is hunted down and captured. He is taken to serve Terl, the 2nd in charge Psychlo administrator for his area. Terl takes a liking to his new slave and soon Jonnie learns the Psychlo language and then a plan forms in Jonnies head of how to rid the Earth of all of the Psychlos.
Things do not go according to plan and the consequences to the Psychlos are devastating. The film as previously mentioned was a poor imitation of the book. the performance from John Travolta was awful. He clearly did not believe in anything he was saying or acting. the sets where cheap and the ending well.... Apparently Travolta is a member of Scientology, of which L.Ron Hubbard was the creator and founder, he did his founder no justice with this film Not recommended you bother with this film it is uninspiring and dull. Give it a go if it comes on TV, otherwise forget it.
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Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
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dynamicnurse 27.01.2009 16:08
Great review, I have never heard of this but it is true a ot of the films tend to get lost somewhere when being translated from a book (even those written by L Ron Hubbard!).
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