Sphere (1998)
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, steady, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo bay, things begin to fall apart.
Our read · Sphere (1998) (1998) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive sci-fi · thriller · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Sphere
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a 90s underwater sci-fi thriller where a team confronts an alien sphere that manifests their fears.”
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