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Dominican Rep. Blast From the Past
7,486
Comedy. Romance
In 1962, Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) was a brilliant but somewhat paranoid scientist living with his wife Helen (Sissy Spacek) in Los Angeles. In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a plane crashed into the Webber's yard. Mistaking the blast for "the big one," the Webbers moved into their elaborate bomb shelter to wait out the half-life of radioactive fallout. In the shelter, now a sort of time capsule, Calvin and Helen ... [+]
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"Garish and not funny enough, Wilson's shapeless satire plods on, squandering its nice premise and its appealing actors" | ||
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"The movie is funny and entertaining (...) Even the set decoration is funny (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" | ||
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"Despite its faintly mechanical construction, Blast From The Past is very classy, and the improbable comic duo of Spacek and Walken provide the manic edge" | ||
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"Despite its original concept, the movie loses much of its socially satiric edge once Fraser emerges from his underground bunker and starts wooing Silverstone" | ||
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"While it's possible to see Blast from the Past as a fairly traditional romantic comedy with a somewhat un que backstory, the film is really more than that. It's a slick, clever satire of American culture." |
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