I'm wracking my brain for one redeeming virtue this movie has and honestly there's nothing. The acting was stolen straight from a second-rate daytime soap opera. The special effects were laughable. The setting was so unimaginative it was absurd. I love how sci fi movies think that creating another planet merely entails filming in a desert with Mideastern duds. The most absurd aspect of the film was the blatantly stereotypical casting. The religious zealots with their reign of terror on the people wore red eastern robes, were of arabic and eastern descent, and used ancient scythes. The desert nomadic barbarians were all African American with African war paint and spoke in mostly grunts. The University scholars were of course all white Americans.
I originally rented the movie wanted to see something of Isaac Asimov's as I'd heard he was a premier sci fi writer and the proposition was intriguing. At the end, I really hope this movie is no indication of Asimov's writing as the movie takes an amazing idea and twists it until it's virtually unrecognizable. It says nothing, it does nothing. It merely proclaims, "Look at what a bad movie I am!"
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