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Fantastic!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Moderately poor acting, conventional villains, meaningless and useless people doing things for reasons no one understands. Slow slow slow paced beyond belief. Why don't they get a real sci-fi FAN to direct one of these things? This definitely had the look of a pilot for a series that was mercifully not funded/chosen for production. Too bad, because the book series is brilliant but frustrating. Still a worthy series worth a really serious film or TV series.This isn't it. Sam Clemens is such a goofball on this. The Alien is soooooooo poorly acted with such a truly lousy alien suit!!! Shades of the original Godzilla! The fight scenes are incredibly poorly staged. It is clear that nothing is happening, fight is unreal. The plot line has 'telegraph' points constantly telling you in advance that something is going to happen. What a drag. I had to force my self to stay tuned.

I don't understand the Sci Fi channel, somehow these idiots have money, production studios, staff - yet they produce trash. I've seen college productions that had more depth and quality. The worst part of Sci Fi is that they absorb the sci fi world on cable, not leaving room for actual quality productions.River World is a good example of a production that had good actors and lots of money yet the product is a pure waste of time. Either the management of Sci Fi Channel are incompetent or the Sci Fi is actively dumbing down the population. That would be a great Sci Fi show, how a cable channel is in conspiracy with some invisible group to turn society into drooling robots who never ask questions and only follow the Sci Fi channel's programming.

Fans of Farmer's remarkable novels will be sickened by the butcher job done by the producers of this turkey. Outside of borrowing a few character names and the basic premise of the world-girdling river, the movie has practically nothing in common with the books. Every important story development concept is thrown away in favor of seemingly endless violence. And what isn't gory is one stale cliché after another. (The engine room scene near the end is taken lock, stock and barrel from at least a dozen Star Trek episodes). The ending obviously left itself open for a sequel or two. God, I hope not! A tragedy second only to Hollywood's rendering of Asimov's "Nightfall".

This movie sucks all the fun out of what fans of Farmer's series might expect. All is dreadfully serious (Sam Clemens, of all people, is boring...), the absurdity & whimsicality is sadly missing, and (just for instance) the ingenious "grails" have become mundane "canisters" (Does the sci-fi channel think we'll need a dictionary, or are they just afraid we'd be tempted to throw it at them if we had to get it out?) This last aspect is just one facet of a general tendency the picture has to take what it finds in the novels, dumb it all down to the level of a person who cannot read a novel, 7 go on from there. Plus the censors seem to have clipped the joints & dreamgum out of things (I may be wrong about this--there was a small part of this film I missed). Capital B Bleahh.