奥德赛：海神的诅咒

　　在神秘流浪汉的提示下，一名性格温顺的煎炸厨师发现了自己的超能力，并揭开了一个影响巨大的黑暗阴谋。

　　生化制药厂的老板Franklin（塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰）提供大量资金供让Susan McAlester博士（萨弗蓉·布罗斯 Saffron Burrows 饰）研究抗老年痴呆症的药物。Susan和研究小组在设备精良的海底研究中心，提取鲨鱼脑中蛋白质，注入坏死的人类脑细胞。为了可以提取到萃取更多的鲨鱼脑蛋白，Susan也同时加大了鲨鱼们的脑容量。这一举动让本来作为试验品的鲨鱼们变得更为强壮和聪明。鲨鱼专家Carter（托马斯·简 Thomas Jane 饰）因和鲨鱼们朝夕相处时发现了鲨鱼们的异样，并向Susan提出了警告，却得到了Susan的无视。终于，在最后一次验中，那些曾经沦为人类试验品的凶残鲨鱼们向人类展开报复……

　　研究者对同年龄组的两个家庭做了跟踪调查：一对是IQ为130的天才组合，夫妻和睦，但是无嗣，正当两人准备作试管婴儿之时，男主人却在自慰中意外死亡；另一个家庭，都是IQ 80的低能夫妻，天天吵架，不过却人丁兴旺，不仅三代同堂，而且家族甚大。根据这个调查，研究者选择了一个自愿 者鲍尔斯（卢克•威尔逊 Luke Wilson 饰）做冷冻实验，不想实验出了差错，500年后他醒来后，却成为地球上最聪明的人。他被盲打误撞地选做了总统的候选人，支持他的甚至还有5届自由搏击冠军。在盛大的竞选现场，他只能硬着头皮面对选民演说，对于目前的种植、沙尘暴等问题，他提出的是灌溉这一看似离谱的解决办法。而且，还得到了选民的拥护，然而这个美梦迅速破灭了，他开始遭到谩骂、攻击，甚至是性命堪忧……

　　宾克蓝道是一个平凡的邻家少年，因为一场奇异的梦境而改变了他和另外两名少男（伍夫甘格、伍德斯）的一生、三名少年对外太空皆存有幻想与探险的渴望。当他们正在自家后院中著手探险的筹备工作时，一场出奇不意的事件就此展开，因为在遥远深邃的外太空中有个人早在那儿呼唤著，等待著他们...

　　在不久的将来，一艘太空探索船在一个未知的星球上坠毁。当他们发现这个星球上居住着巨大的恐龙时，他们很快就会遇到一些最可怕的恐惧

　　British Army radiation drills at a remote Scottish base attract a subterranean, radioactive entity of unknown nature that vanishes, leaving two severely radiation-burned soldiers... and a "bottomless" crack in the earth. Others who meet the thing in the night suffer likewise, and with increasing severity; it seems to be able to "absorb" radiation from any source, growing bigger and bigger. What is it?? How do you destroy a thing that "feeds" on energy?

　　Eric Braeden stars as Dr. Charles Forbin, who has created a supercomputer named Colossus, built solely for the purpose of controlling the nuclear defenses of the Western alliance. It isn't too long after, however, that the Russians announce that they too have built a similar computer for those same purposes on their side--Guardian. And when the two machines begin sharing information at a speed nobody can believe, an attempt is made to disable them.
　　This unfortunately just raises the machines' ire; and in retaliation, they launch their weapons at each other's home nations. The result is a chilling scenario that is potentially becoming all too real these days.
　　COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT was not a big hit at the box office for various reasons. One is that its cast wasn't exactly well known. Another reason is that its ending isn't exactly a happy one. Still a third reason is that Universal had trouble trying to promote it in the wake of the huge success of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The latter reason is obvious: Colossus and Guardian, like HAL in the Kubrick movie, become central characters here. The difference here is that while HAL malfunctions due to a programming conflict, Colossus and Guardian remain all too stable, convinced beyond a doubt that they know how to protect Mankind better than Man himself. As the computers point out: "One inevitable rule is that Mankind is his own worst enemy."
　　Joseph Sargent's direction is efficient, and the special effects work of Albert Whitlock still manages to work despite its obvious age. An overlooked gem in the sci-fi genre, this should be given a revival.