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Solar Crisis
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  •  Japan / USA  •    •  112m  •    •  Directed by: Richard C. Sarafian, Alan Smithee.  •  Starring: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Annabel Schofield, Corin Nemec, Tetsuya Bessho, Jack Palance, Dorian Harewood, Paul Koslo, Sandy McPeak, Silvana Gallardo, Dan Shor, Scott Allan Campbell.  •  Music by: Maurice Jarre.
        A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must go to the Sun to drop a talking bomb at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else. Giant IXL Corp CEO Teague thinks the flare won't happen and wants the mission to fail so he can buy the planet cheaply while the scare lasts. Employee Haas prepares a surprise for the astronauts. While daddy Steve Kelso commands the space ship where temperaturs rise, granddaddy Admiral Skeet Kelso is searching the desert for grandson Mike who's gone AWOL to say goodbye to his dad but who inadvertently crossed the path of the guys from IXL after meeting desert-dweller Travis.

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Sort of what a run-of-the mill piece of anime might look like, if it was filmed completely by live actors. There's a ridiculously overstuffed plot, with maybe sixteen different threads (well, I'm exaggerating, but there's a lot.) There's the tendency towards operatic moments, with everything whipped up to a melodramatic froth. There's an unfortunate tendency towards cutesiness. Etc. Another way to think of it is that this is the really dull sequel to STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, which wasn't all that hot to begin with.

Really nice effects for the time, and not a bad cast in the supporting roles: Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, and Peter Boyle. Unfortunately Tim Matheson and the guy who played Parker Lewis on "Parker Lewis can't lose".

Review by dj_bassett from the Internet Movie Database.

 
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