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Waste of time

That was an excellent one.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Sole Survivor is the movie adaptation of a supernatural thriller book by Dean Koontz.The 3 hour epic teeters on greatness but somehow, someway misses the mark and misses it hard.It tells the story of man played by the incredibly underrated Billy Zane who lost his wife and daughter in a plane crash. Before he knows it he finds himself embroiled in a supernatural conspiracy that may explain what really happened on that fateful day.Also starring Scrubs (2001) star John C. McGinley this powerhouse of a movie is one of those that has a great concept but runs out of steam about half way through.Also starring Timecop (1994) star Gloria Reuben and former child star Jodelle Ferland I was really enjoying Sole Survivor up until the point that it became apparent it really wasn't going anywhere special.The film is worth watching for Zane & McGinley alone but the heartbreaking thing is how much potential this had. Sole Survivor had limitless potential but Koontz clearly ran out of ideas (Good ones anyway).A damn fine attempt regardless.The Good:Billy Zane and John C. McGinley are excellentGreat first halfSome nice ideasThe Bad:Plot gets a bit muddledToo much "God" speakFinale was a dudThings I Learnt From This Movie:I hate kids, also likely to be my last words

I have real issues with movies where they insist on making the characters as dumb as fence posts. This is one of them. If you are being monitored by the evil government then don't call your best friend on the phone to tell him where the secret meeting he doesn't have any interest in is being held. If you are about to die just tell all, there are no consequences to spilling it all now. If you must steal a car don't do it in front of the bad guys, or at least change cars.Then there's the pointless religion, what the heck has belief in mythical beings got to do with this story. They didn't wrap up the loose ends either. Not that we are interested in finding out what became of the minor characters. Just glad it's over.This was small part mystery, small part new age clap trap, large part padding.And why do I have to stretch this out to 10 lines when some other reviews are one liners.

This movie is a great piece of sci-fi and fantasy movie making. Of course you can tell that it was a novel from the word go as it is a very "out there" story. However as long as you watch this movie with and open mind and ignore the plot holes and blatant impossibilities if of this movie it is an enjoyable movie.The casting is very good (Iespecially enjoyed the man from 'scrubs' as the bad guy however over the top his character was!),Billy Zane is surprisingly good as the central role in a performance that i have never seen from him. The story is interesting and compelling and its easy to see that it would make a very good page turner as you are always kept on the edge of your seat. However out there the story may be there are important ideas about God, Life, Family and Death all contained subtly within the story (as do all great novels). This gives the movie a whole new dimension that sets it apart from any one dimensional sci-fi movies that i have seen. its a movie that leaves you thinking afterwards but also is not eclipsed by this and so leaves the movie entertaining and not too strenuous for the watcher (or reader). There are also some very creepy moments in this movie but nothing too scary so don't be put off if you are easily scared because you shouldn't be too scared by this movie. So in all watch this movie it is enjoyable for the thinking movie fans of you out there, the die hard sci-fi fans and anyone who has a few hours to spare time(OK quite a lot of spare time this is a long movie as it was originally a mini series).

My one-line summary for this movie, and most of this critique, seems to hold for most Dean Koontz books/movies that I have read/seen. They are a combination of Stephen King fantasy, horror and mystery; "supported", sort of, by a Michael Crichton "high tech". The combination works well up to a point, but for reasons that I don't quite understand, it doesn't quite become "great". It seems that Koontz isn't quite comfortable with a good fantasy story, that he seems to "need" some kind of scientific justification, which he doesn't.This particular movie/story rolls along quite nicely, a lot of interest, possibly a little too long before the denouement, when we find out what's really going on. But overall, a "very good" movie. I see strong similarities between this movie and "Phantoms" in particular.I also think that the violence is a little gratuitous. But against that is that there is not a single swear word, not a single glimpse of naked flesh; where there is plenty of opportunity to include that if he wanted to.Having said all that, it IS a good movie. I would always be prepared to hire out a Dean Koontz movie on the strength of his name alone. It's simply that here on IMDB I get to wax philosophical about it...