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  Review by Kentucker Audley ★★★½ 2

  I love movies. You can just make up anything and that's your movie.

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  Review by Kirk Balopoulos ★★ 1

  I thoroughly enjoyed the stupidity this movie displays while trying so desperately to be intellectual sci-fi. Samuel L. Jackson visits the sphere, starts acting erratically while eating eggs, and then Sharon Stone writes in her notebook “Are eggs spheres?”

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  Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸 ★★★ 10

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  tfw the scariest part of your horror film is when Dustin Hoffman finds a load of copies of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea in a cupboard.

  An utterly bewildering mess of a sci-fi horror film that I always get mixed up with another utterly bewildering mess of a sci-fi horror film, namely Virus. I suppose I'll rewatch that next.

  One of a clutch of post-The Abyss sci-fi films cranked out by Hollywood in the mid-to-late nineties that liked to think they were a bit more thoughtful than your usual fantasy bunkum, Sphere really doesn't work on any level beyond being quite good fun because it's all so utterly stupid. It's one of those films that is packed full of ideas…

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  Review by LAckerman ★★★★ 15

  I'd like to make the case for 'Sphere'. 

  The film has somewhat of a troubled history and reputation. It suffered from numerous problems throughout its production and went on to become both a commercial and critical failure. It never found cult status with future audiences and has largely been forgotten in the years since, which is a real shame because I think 'Sphere' is one of the most interesting mainstream sci-fi releases of the 1990s. It is frightening, suspenseful, thought provoking, and uncommonly weird in all the right ways, with a great cast of A-list actors bringing the admittedly hokey B-movie premise to life.

  Mostly known for his character driven dramas, Barry Levinson is not the most obvious choice to…

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  Review by Branson Reese 7

  Holy shit this was so boring.

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  Review by anchron ★½

  Imagine Alien was a watermelon. Good. Now imagine Solaris was also a watermelon. Good. Now imagine Sphere trying to hold two watermelons in one hand and dropping them both.

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  Review by Emma Stefansky

  Damn, I wish I could get inside that sphere.

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  Review by Ben Daniels ★★★½ 2

  I'd watch Sphere again, but if I did, I'd probably stop it three quarters the way in and fill the rest in for myself. The ending wrecks this film. Up to that point it's a brilliant, clever popcorn flick, with a heck of a lot of mystery and atmosphere. The cast is really bloody brilliant, and it's wonderfully engrossing.

  But goddammit, the test audiences didn't like the original ending so they had to reshoot, and I assume, rewrite it, because it just felt so lacklustre. Dang the Hollywood system!

  Not to mention there's a pretty BIG plot hole. The climax itself is just not as gripping and it loses all life it had. But damn, it was so good before.…

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  Review by Wood ★★★★ 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Michael Crichton was one of my favourite authors and I've always thought the Sphere book was an underrated piece of sci-fi.

  Although Barry Levinson's adaption tries to take on the dense novel, and hits most of the key points. I just don't think it does as good of a job explaining the Sphere. I mean Crichton did have like 8 chapters of mathematics explaining it so, it's not really movie friendly. At least they don't fly away on a magical sea alien like the end of the Abyss.

  The cast is really strong with Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Liev Schreiber, but really this is Samuel L. Jackson show. If you're a Jackson enthusiast like myself, this is essential viewing.

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  Review by Aaron White ★★ 7

  This movie is like if The Abyss and 2001: A Space Odyssey had a baby and it was ugly.

  Ranked: Barry Levinson

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  Review by comrade_yui ½ 3

  i know i should be beyond this, but still, as a huge michael crichton fan, and particularly of this book, which was a major touchstone for me as a kid, i do not understand how this can be as bad as it is, just fucking dreadful, i don't even have anything insightful to say.

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  Review by SpOoky Lukey Video 👻📼🎃 ★★★½

  My heart may truly belong to lo-fi, trash horror. But there’s room in there for big-budget, underwater sci-fi nonsense as well. Especially if there’s deep sea hallucinations and Samuel L. Jackson involved.