Movie Information
Overall Rank: 9494
Average Rating: 2.4/4
# of Ratings: 129
Theatrical Release Date: 02/13/1998
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah
Plot: In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, an alien spacecraft is discovered by the U.S. Navy. A team made up of a marine biologist(Sharon Stone), a mathematician(Samuel L. Jackson), an astrophysicist(Liev Schreiber), a psychologist(Dustin Hoffman) and a member of the U.S. Navy is tasked with investigating the spaceship. Nothing has prepared them for what will soon be discovered. -- Supercrum
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1.5/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 11/06/2018
Michael Crichton’s intriguing page-turner SPHERE is watered down as a routine and expensive looking retread of better films like The Abyss. The cast isn’t terrible (save for a miscast Sharon Stone) but it’s not warranting the lengthy running time. Oddly the movie still seems choppy and edited haphazardly. A rare suspenseful scene consisting of an attack by an unseen giant squid does promise a change of pace. But that doesn’t happen. For Crichton completists only.
Rating of
4/4
Amber - wrote on 06/02/2013
Okay, so I have watched this movie several times. It is one of my all time favorite movies. The acting is superb. The underwater scenes are phenomenal. The plot line is new and refreshing. As always, Michael Crichton is a genius!
Rating of
1.5/4
Yojimbo - wrote on 12/09/2012
Ponderous, verbose sci-fi that entertained me (or rather, I entertained myself) for as long as I was trying to figure out what was going on. There are some nice images and interestingly spooky ideas (such as the unfinished copies of Moby Dick) but the "explanation" is pathetic and the ending a total anti-climax.
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