Wolff rating: NOT BAD
Plot summary: Blond girl is on the run from team of scientists trying to find her.
Biased, pithy comments: For a few minutes at a time, I'd be entranced by how serious they were trying to be when they made this film. Then I remembered that this entire movie was a huge excuse to show Henstridge without a shirt. There were unblinking attempts at pathos and a very clever shift of who you root for in the movie, although I don't think this goes quite into the realm of asking any questions about what is the meaning of good and evil. No, this is three-star one-star movie; it's a 50s B horror flick about the fears of unprotected sex and out-of-wedlock pregnancy done up as a serious movie with good actors (Whitaker even sells his Counselor Troi act quite well). Williams is probably the best thing in it---her escape from the lab and subsequent road trip are quite interesting. The story goes pretty far downhill towards the end, and the very last few scenes are scraped from the lowest ``Aliens''-knockoff barrel. Still, it's fun, perhaps a little sexy, and surprising in the best ``spring-loaded cat'' tradition. See it, but don't tell anyone you had fun.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, Natasha Henstridge, Michelle Williams
Directed by: Roger Donaldson