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Old 01-12-2024, 02:47 PM   #15379
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Runaway (1984) 3.5/10

A Michael Crichton film, starring Tom Selleck as a cop that deals with robots that deviate from their programming and become a risk to the people around them. It also stars Cynthia Rhodes, Kirstie Alley and Gene Simmons (yes, of Kiss). This film is soooooo bad, but not so bad that it becomes good. The script and acting is on par with a porn film (or what I imagine a porn film is like, as I'm not sad enough to watch such things). I expect more from Crichton. Simmons' performance is especially egregious, but I don't know why I should have expected anything different. Given Selleck's popularity at this point in his career, you'd think he could have got a better film than this. However, saying that, his film career never topped Three Men and a Baby in 1987, and that was due to the combined star power of him, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson, who were all at the top of their popularity at the time.


Coma (1978) 8/10

Another Michael Crichton film, starring Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Richard Widmark and Rip Torn; it also has a pre-Magnum PI Tom Selleck and a young Ed Harris with hair.

Bujold plays a surgical resident at a Boston hospital who notices that seemingly healthy people coming in for routine operations are falling into comas during surgery. As she starts to dig deeper into what is happening and the cause, she finds her life in danger.

I really enjoyed this film, which slowly ratchets up the tension until the end. Bujold is the stand out performance, with the others not given much else to do than to act as obstacles as she tries to discover the truth.
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