Advantages: Great effects at the time Disadvantages: Hasnt aged well and lots of silly goofs
Time hasn't been kind to this movie. Your basic plot is for some reason the US Government want to operate on a defecting scientist who has been injured in an assassination attempt (I believe someone says he is able to make the shrinking process last longer than 60 minutes as an off the cuff remark) and the guy their sending doesn't want to go but has to anyway. The crew is a Navy guy, the doctor who navigates (surely the surgeon could have done that ... ...his assistant to do the operation and the guy for security. He's pointless too, plenty of things get sabotaged and not once does he manage to stop any of them. Then they all decontaminate and board the sub to be shrunk. Actually their shrunk twice and I still don't understand why this process couldn't have been done closer to the operating room. They are shrunk, then put into a giant syringe (Donald Pleasance who is easily the biggest star in the ...
atytyut2434 28.03.2009 (08.04.2009)
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Advantages: fills cupboard space Disadvantages: fills cupboard space
Fantastic Voyage,
I wonder if the writer and producer of this sixties sci-fi classic, ever dreamt that someday science would be on the edge of actually starting work on a similar project. Known as Nanotechnology producing microscopic vessels that can venture into the human body and repair problems - one cell at a time.
Science lesson over, back to the film.
A Russian scientist Jan Benes defects to the West, with the knowledge of being able to ... ...to assassinate him goes wrong, but he is hit on the side of the head, which causes a blood clot.
The race is then on, a team of scientists in a specially designed submarine, are then shrunk, using the Russian technology, and through injection are entered into Benes blood stream, they are given one hour to find and destroy the blood clot before, Benes natural defence system fires in, and attacks them.
Remembered this from my younger days and when ...
dreamscancometrue 23.01.2006
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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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