Grand Tour - Disaster in Time (1992)

3 and a half starts for First Twohy film

By now David Twohy should be a trademark. A kind of Spielberg for B movies. But it isn't. Not yet at least. This man has been directing consistently good genre films for some years now ("The Arrival", "Pitch Black", "Below", "Chronicles of Riddick") so when I found that its first one was still there unwatched, I immediately took to find the piece and give it a go.
What a nice story! Full of logical holes if you have mastered your Doc Brown technique, but what a nice tale nevertheless! Jeff Daniels plays an Inn owner that receives the visit of tourists from a strange place, that came just to be witness to a big event. That's enough information for you. Enjoy the tone of the story, its little town that looks from Capra seen by Spielberg or Dante, that nice orange-yellow glow that pervades so many 1980's films (despite this being done in 1992). Next Twohy movie, I will be in line at the theater. August 24, 2008

Disaster in filmmaking

Horrible acting, a swiss cheese plot (including the laughable final scene), and childish special effects make this a sci-fi snoozer. July 17, 2008

Better than Expectations.

It would have been 5-stars if they would not have over-stretch the uneventful first-half. The production is modest, but the story is very good. And the cast do a good job. A reviewer in this page called it "Like A long Twilight Zone Episode", and that just about sums it up.
May 20, 2008

Absolutely GRAND!

I was looking for a movie to rent years ago at a popular video chain in CA. and there was this special movie rack of "sleepers". Basically movies that just didn't catch on with the masses. So I look through them and end up taking only one of them home. This movie has haunted me ever since. I found a copy years ago and before I even got to view it again I had given it to a relative who was visiting from out of state. Needless to say I never saw or heard about their take on it again. But now I have my very own copy and you can forget about borrowing this one! This movie will sneak up on you if you just give it a chance. . . fifteen minutes or so. The use of the word "grand" will either amuse you are drive you nuts however. Get used to it, it helps to set you up for the deeper meaning of the movie. Enjoy the suggestion and the innuendo. March 16, 2008

Good by high standards

I'm picky about movies, so my 3-star is worth 4 from most people, except those who need car-chases, exploding cars, and wire-supported stunts. It has one piece of sci-fi that initiates the plot: People from the future time-traveling back to our present. From that point, the plot plays out rationally, though the time-paradox is not truly confronted or explained away. The present-day characters are realistic and well defined, as are their interrelationships. The future people are left somewhat fuzzy, though they are fleshed out as persons, not mere mysteries. For anyone who likes sci-fi or futurist films, I highly recommend this. For the rest, it at least deserves a rental. February 23, 2008

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