2019年,为了解决地球灾难性人口爆炸,天空总署派出人类2.0版,进入一枚虫洞探索新世界,该任务被称为"虚空"。当特派团意外返回时,太空总署反而发现了第一次星际太空之旅中的失踪宇航员...
查利(克里夫·罗伯逊 Cliff Robertson 饰)虽然已经是一名30岁的成年男子了,但是因为患有智力障碍,他的言行举止都宛若一个6岁的孩童。白天,查利在面包房靠着做清洁工来赚取微薄的薪水养活自己,这份工作除了非常辛苦以外,查理还必须忍受同伴们的嘲笑和欺侮。晚上,查利回去夜校上课,他的老师爱丽丝(克莱尔·布鲁姆 Claire Bloom 饰)对查利非常的好。 为了帮查利治病,爱丽丝找到了专门进行大脑实验的神经学家理查德(Leon Janney 饰)和安娜(莉莉娅·斯卡拉 Lilia Skala 饰),查利作为实验对象接受了两人的治疗,谁知道治疗效果拔群,查利不仅完全病愈,而且获得了超高的智商。
The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.
卡通中的超级英雄太空超人终于跃上大银幕了!在这部真人版的太空超人中,老冤家幽灵王当然是不会缺席,这次两人为了要抢夺一把时空钥匙,而展开一场惊天动地的大战,因为这把钥匙的拥有者,将有能力控制时间与空间。