After watching the boy, I attempted to go back into
Arthurian mythology, but I couldn’t sit through my low budget selection.
Instead, I turned to some sci-fi from my formidable days, the 1989 time travel
flick Millennium.
Plot/ An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline
disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future. She replaces the
people from airplanes before they crash with corpses with the same features.
Time travel movies can often be a mixed bag, and this one is
no exception. A low budget sci-fi gem from the 1980s, this one actually has an
interesting storyline and takes on time travel in an intriguing manner. The
performances are solid, that cast is a fine mix, the scripting thought-out and
layered, and for the era and budget, the effects are not that bad. Yes, there
is some campiness and some of the elements are a touch over-the-top, the ending
leaves a bit to be desired, and at one glance, you can tell the movie was shot
in the 1980s, but those flaws do not bring the movie down. In the end, this is
a good but not groundbreaking or memorable time travel film. Sure, it could
have been better and the ending does hurt the overall feel, but for what it is,
the movie is better than most of the low budget stuff that is forced upon us
today.
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