Sunday, August 24, 2008

"Grand Tour: Disaster in Time" (David Twohy, 1992) - 3.5/5

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.

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