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- 1989
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 48 m
- 1989
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 48 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Michael Anderson
Written By: John Varley
- 1989
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 48 m
- 1989
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 48 m
Millennium
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Summary 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.
Directed By: Michael Anderson
Written By: John Varley
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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18% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
55% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
26
18% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
55% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Millennium is a throwback to 1950s, B-grade science fiction movies in which the love story and the concepts had to cover for special effects that weren't too special. [30 Aug 1989, p.3C]
The vague ending may be a bit of a cheat; but with its sly asides and unembarrassed absurdities, this Outer Limits-style yarn, directed in suitably plain fashion by the veteran Michael Anderson, manages to be more self-convinced, and more diverting, than a mega-buck offering like The Abyss. [19 Oct 1989]
The film never really overcomes obvious budgetary constraints, with important moments drained of impact because the effects lack imagination. Kristofferson and Travanti (as a physicist) are effectively true to form, but Ladd is woefully inadequate.
The script earns a few points for trying to deal with the puzzles inherent in time-travel stories, and it's not surprising that the author is John Varley, who has won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for his science-fiction novels. But he needed a more inspired director than the plodding Michael Anderson. [15 Mar 1990, p.D5]
About an hour after an engaging, suspenseful start, Millennium seems to thrash itself to bits. [26 Sep 1989, p.D04]
It offers neither the tension of a good plane-disaster movie nor the ingenuity of a smart time-travel tale.
Millennium has little to distract you from the obvious phony hair coloring of its stars.
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Production Company
First Millenium Partnership,
Gladden Entertainment
Release Date Aug 25, 1989
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline They say that when you die, you enter a brilliant white light. But what if you had never died at all, and something you could never imagine was awakened.
Awards
Genie Awards
• 5 Nominations
Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
