Advantages: Two of the best Sci-fi films made Disadvantages: None
...written and excellent story.
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Director Richard Fleischer (Barabbas, The Vikings)
This film could have been made today as the Special Effects would have been just as good today. Of course this was remade in 1987 under the title Innerspace, although the story was mutilated, the idea was the same but the story wasn't.
A Russian scientist is smuggled in to America by Grant (Stephen Boyd), this scientist has crucial knowledge ... ...for £9.99), I still remember watching both these films on re-runs when I was a kid and used Fantastic Voyage to prompt me in to making a project for my Art class at school. I would recommend these films if you like a good plot, good film and Sci-fi ...
pc2308 26.04.2007
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Advantages: effects survive the test of time, engaging plots, great casts Disadvantages: noticaeble gaffes in places make for the odd chuckle time to time
...my imagination. In Fantastic Voyage (1966), a scientist who knows the secret to keeping people miniaturised indefinitely, escapes from behind the Iron Curtain of the old Soviet Union. The CIA sends an agent to escort him under motorcade to safety, but they are attacked. Unfortunately, the scientist suffers a severe head injury and a blot clot forms inside his brain. the only solution os for a group of American scientists to miniaturise themselves ... ...the SFX team, especially for Fantastic voyage. The effects are so skilfully done, they have dated very little. It is a lesson that many should learn; they had smaller budgets back then, but small budget need not mean cheesy effects! This is a single disc, with both films on the single sided disc. The colours look fresh, and the look is not grainy, so they get a two thumbs up for the care they took in restoring and transferring the old films. Sound ...
Shroud 14.02.2007 (15.02.2007)
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