| Millennium | | Cast : | Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd | | Director : | Michael Anderson | | Studio : | Artisan Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | August 25, 1989 | | DVD Released Date : | October 23, 2001 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | This movie is off the cheese scale! | Content
 | This movie took me back! I haven't seen this movie since I was a little boy..and it took me forever to find it on the internet. I give it 5 stars just because it was everything I was hoping for and more! Sadly..you might not feel the same way so don't get your hopes up. If what you're looking for is a cheesy 80's scifi flick with all the basics: action, drama, comedy, da bomb special effects, robots and a HOPELESS love story..BUY THIS MOVIE! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 29, 2005 | | Summary | Interesting. | Content
| I would have never seen this movie had my girlfriend not have picked it out of the cheapie bin 'cause she saw it years ago and was surprised I'd never heard of it.
The plot is about a cop (Kris Kristoperson) who is investigating a plane crash finds some weird things from the crash site. Time travellers from the future come back to rescue people, but during one of there procedures, something goes wrong and one of them is killed, and accidentally drops a futuristic device. Once they return to there future, a paradox shift in the universe rumbles through them and they realise they must send someone back to retrieve the device before someone works out how to use it and 'causes more ripples in the universe. (Creating more paradox's) One of the time travellers is Cheryl Ladd (Charlies Angels) she is sent back to retrieve the device and also try to stop Kris from investigating the plain wreck on a certain day. However when she thinks she failed she returns to the future, but if she had of stayed 10 more seconds she would have succeeded, she `causes another ripple and must return once again. And she falls in love with Kris' character.
I thought it was interesting to question what would happen if time travel were possible. Then n depending on WHAT you change in the past, how does that affect the future? I must say it's not as funny as when Homer Simpson travelled through time with his toaster and kept changing things, but on a more serious level I thought it was interesting where this movie went with it's approach.
The special effects aren't too bad, considering it is a late 80's movie. A few people criticize the future scenes as being ugly.... There supposed to be! The future in this movie is a dirty place, polluted so badly that smoking cigarettes is a breath of fresh air. (Now do you get it?). The elders where being kept alive in there tubes and that future is erased by the end of the film so that it never happened anyway which is what every futuristic movie needs to do because anybody's vision of the future will always be highly criticised for numerous reasons.
BONUS FEATURES:
Look Ma, someone decided to talk about them!
The bonus features contain a trailer, a biography of the actors, and production notes. What I found to be very unique about the bios and notes was the text on screen is actually read to you! I've never seen that on any other DVD before, and I think more DVD's should have that on them.
On the production notes when you reach the last page there is an option to view the alternate ending. I give that bonus feature 1 star for the way it's shown. It spends 5 minutes showing the end scene again until they walk through the time portal to show 2 seconds of what they call the alternate ending. If anybody skips the production notes they wont even know there is an alternate ending on the DVD. And if they read the cover that says it's on there, they'd probably wonder where it is? Either the cover shouldn't have said it and it became an EGG or they should have made it a proper option.
People who criticise this film are just showing their lack of understanding a plot that went right over their heads. The idea to show scenes again from a different angle is interesting, and seeing a women come back from the future and she reacts to things she has never done before is also interesting... sure, they could have expanded further with all that, but this film is what it is and as long as you sit down with an open mind and stop concentrating on nitpicking how un-logical things are in this film (yet you probably think the Matrix makes sense) just watch the story unfold instead of worrying about how YOU would have directed things, why not just watch it for fun instead of looking for flaws, you might actually enjoy the film! |
| Rating | | | Date | May 02, 2005 | | Summary | Millennium (Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd) | Content
| This movie was great! Alot of people are criticising the film for replaying parts of the movie from a different view. I thought that part was very interesting because it added elements of explanation to clarify the plot. I enjoyed the humorous moments added. Especially between Ladd's character and her personal robot. Anybody fascinated with the idea of time travel will enjoy this movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 07, 2005 | | Summary | An Interesting Mood, A Lost Opportunity | Content
| I mean, is Kris Kristofferson the worst actor in film history or what? Next to this guy a sheet of plywood is Sir Laurence Olivier. It's hard to decide who shows a greater range of emotion, Kristofferson or the pathetically lame talking robot. At least the robot had an excuse for not being able to move his face. Sorry, had to get that out. The shame here is that Millenium is a very compelling story, and the film does create an interesting, unsettling mood. It does get under your skin a bit, like a not very good tune that you can't stop singing. Cheryl Ladd is fine, though burdened with community theatre level dialogue. With a good screenwriter and a male lead that could convince you his character was something other than a bump on a soggy log, this could have been a winner. As it is it's a deepy flawed oddity that I go back to every year for some twisted fun. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 08, 2004 | | Summary | Millennium is a thinking man's scifi flick | Content
| This movie is actually better than what others might think. But it requires your complete attention, and for a generation of people who are used to in-your-face MTV type short-attention span stuff, then skip this flick. However, I have shown this DVD on several occasions to groups of friends, and everyone enjoyed trying to figure out what was going on, and were surprised as I was, when time - travel was implicated. Cheryl Ladd was quite good as a cynical flight attendant, and Kris Kristofferson was believable as a man burned out on his job. I only with Travanti had more to do. Still, I highly recommend this flick to people who like to think when they watch a scifi flick. |
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