- Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy, Lloyd Bochner
- Directors: Michael Anderson
- Writers: John Varley
- Producers: Bruce McNall, Courtney Silberberg, Douglas Leiterman, Freddie Fields, John Foreman
- Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Live (Universal)
- Release Date: Mar 28 2000
- Run Time: 108 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 0784011338
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #20,458 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Time-hoppers from the future, led by Cheryl Ladd, are abducting airline passengers about to crash, and transporting them a millennium hence in order to reseed a future blighted by environmental disaster. This is a dangerous business, plagued by the specter of accidentally creating time paradoxes, which could throw the future out of whack. Unfortunately, they've lost a couple of the stunners they use to subdue troublesome passengers, and these fall into the hands of a curious physicist (Daniel J. Travanti) and an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board (Kris Kristofferson). Cheryl Ladd must retrieve these devices before a time paradox wipes out her world, but manages to complicate things by developing a romance with Kristofferson. All of which is very intriguing, having come from the short story, "Air Raid," by science fiction luminary John Varley, who also is credited with the screenplay. The part about airline abductions to save the disastrous future is straight from the original story, and the rest is expanded (you wouldn't say extrapolated) from it. The results are not very happy. About a third of the film is maddeningly wasted by repeating action from a different point of view. Seems natural when there are disparate timelines to deal with, but here nothing is added by the conceit. Only Travanti turns in a creditable performance as the physicist, bent on proving his theories about the future. He seems hungry for discovery, which is one of the things you want from a science fiction story, that sense of awe. But here it's just, "Aw, shucks!" --Jim Gay
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Warning, time quake approaching, paradox, magnitude 7...,
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This review is from: Millennium (Widescreen) (DVD)
This film could be described as a romantic relationship between Kris Kristofferson and the beautiful Cheryl Ladd, but that would be boring. But when she is a time traveller from 1,000 years ahead of us, then that gives this film the edge. She and her time travel partners keep on losing their 'stunners' and have to come back to retrieve them, to avoid a time paradox, and the subsequent time quake. They want to capture humans to preserve the species as they are dying, to avoid a time paradox they capture humans who are about to die in a plane crash. The film features two plane crashes, one in 1963 and one in 1989 and in this one Kris is the plane crash investigator.The film is a bit dated as in 1989 they are worried about acid rain, now we worry about global warming. Cheryl chain smokes in order to keep up her hydrocarbons, and in the 1963 air crash you can see the stewardess serving cigarettes. The robot has the best lines as far as humour is concerned. There is one extended scene on the romance between Kris and Cheryl, that is repeated, this only works because one is before we know she is a time traveller and the second after we know that she is a time traveller. The inevitable happens and a time paradox occurs leading to... The SFX are OK for 1989. All in all a good film which has been scripted very well. I was able to watch the DVD twice when I got it, I first saw the film on TV 15 years ago. It is underrated by the Sci Fi guys IMHO.
4.0 out of 5 stars
don't multi-task or you'll miss the movie,
This review is from: Millennium (Widescreen) (DVD)
If you like time-travelling, mysteries and beautiful ladies (and hunks, I guess), you'll love this. But don't blink or forget to pause if the phone rings, or the rest of the movie may not make sense. This is tense, humourous, and makes you think so that you can keep up. If you casually watch and talk, it will make no sense and you will think it stinks. Sit, watch, and enjoy all of the twist and turns! You'll love it!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Sherman, send the gate,
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This review is from: Millennium (Widescreen) (DVD)
We are medially confronted with a midair plain crash. In the confusion the navigator goes back into the cabin and is horrified by something. All we see is a staring device sliding along the floor "MILLENNIUM".Bill Smith investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board (Kris Kristofferson) is dispatched to the crash scene. he must make since of things that do not add up to a normal crash. Meanwhile he is being asked about the anomalies by a physicist (Daniel J. Travanti) that seems to know moiré than he is letting on. And to make things more complicated he is being sidetracked by a female airline employee (Cheryl Ladd) that does not seem to do everything from driving to eating awkwardly. Bill wonders if he is tired, paranoid or is there something that is just not normal? The music and filming remind me of a Hallmark romance movie which just happens to have a sci-fi background.
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