Sphere - Die Macht aus dem All

Originaltitel: Sphere

1998
16
2 Std. 14 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,1/10

114.370

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

4.119

309

Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sharon Stone in Sphere - Die Macht aus dem All (1998)

Home Video Trailer from Warner Home Video

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Psychological Drama Psychological Thriller Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller

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Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,1/10

114.370

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

4.119

309

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 3 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Many scenes, like Harry (Samuel L. Jackson) and Norman's (Dustin Hoffman's) conversation about making up the ULF report and dealing with Ted (Liev Schreiber), were completely improvised.

Patzer
When Jerry first makes contact, he transmits in code : "MY NAME IS JERRY". Later, the code is revealed to have been mistranslated and the message reads: "MY NAME IS HARRY" If the letters H, E, J, and A in the simple letter/number substitution code were wrong, the first message would have read: "MY NEMA IS JERRY". Also, the entire series of conversations they had would have exhibited the same error, yet none did so. (HAPPY would have been JEPPY, ALL = ELL, etc.)

Zitate
Dr. Harry Adams: We're all gonna die down here.
Norman Goodman: What?
Dr. Harry Adams: You see? It's curious. Ted did figure it out - time travel. And when we get back, we gonna tell everyone. How it's possible, how it's done, what the dangers are. But then why fifty years in the future when the spacecraft encounters a black hole does the computer call it an 'unknown entry event'? Why don't they know? If they don't know, that means we never told anyone. And if we never told anyone it means we never made it back. Hence we die down here. Just as a matter of deductive logic.

Crazy Credits
The opening credits are cast over an invisible sphere.

Alternative Versionen
SPOILER ALERT: An alternate television edit has been shown with a simplified and more ambiguous ending that follows the shooting script; Harry warns them that the authorities are on their way to debrief them, and they will demand answers. The three survivors ready themselves to forget about their mission and the power they possess. Outside, a helicopter sets down. Subsequently, we see the three survivors being interviewed in a debriefing room after decompression, each shot individually against the same background. They react as if they're oblivious to anything going wrong in the Habitat, unaware of anything that happened to Ted, Barnes or the Sphere. The helicopter leaves, and the camera pans down to the ocean, where the Sphere supposedly still remains.

Verbindungen
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Blues Brothers 2000/Illtown/The Replacement Killers (1998)

Soundtracks
Horn Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major, K.447
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Vienna Mozart Ensemble; Herbert Kraus, Conductor
Courtesy of LaserLight Digital
By arrangement with Source/Q

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6/10

A Strange Sci-Fi, Philosophy Story

A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 12% based on 50 reviews, with the critical consensus that "Sphere features an A-level cast working with B-grade material, with a story seen previously in superior science-fiction films." Indeed, one wonders what Sharon Stone and Dustin Hoffman were doing in this. Hoffman, of course, was brought on by the director, his friend Barry Levinson. But Stone should have had better projects.

Some aspects of this are interesting, and even though it was a flop at the time, I could see people today (2015) going back and really giving it a second chance. It has not become a better film with age, but it has something to say about science fiction films of the 1990s. (Most, it seems, were dystopian, so this is something of a fresh change.)