30th Anniversary: 1989 - the Best Year in Cinema Marathon Film #65/100: "Millennium" (1st Viewing.) I swore I saw this before, but only remember the plane scene. Maybe, it was the TV show. I would've remembered more as this movie was pretty darn good. I enjoyed this take on time travel. Not perfect, but my interest was never lost throughout and I loved the female lead, Cheryl Ladd. Worth watching once...every thousand years or so.
Millennium
1989
Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Millennium
1989
Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot summary
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
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Couldn't get into it
MILLENNIUM is a US/Canadian collaboration about a plane crash which soon turns into something else besides. This is a time travel movie in which inhabitants of a contemporary Earth are contacted by visitors from the future with a warning against the destruction of the planet. The film is thus rather preachy and it has also dated in a quite unconvincing way, with the depictions of a futuristic society little different from the ones dreamt up in the likes of SPACE: 1999.
I don't really like preachy films dealing heavy-handed messages so MILLENNIUM was off-putting in that respect. Kris Kristofferson is his usual gruff self as the investigating hero but once Cheryl Ladd shows up and a slow-burning romance develops between the two characters I was really turned off. Surely a film dealing with massive sci-fi principles like this one should be exciting and mind-blowing? MILLENNIUM is tepid and dated instead, and hardly what you'd call gripping.
interesting sci-fi idea executed poorly
In 1989, a passenger plane crashes and NTSB investigator Bill Smith (Kris Kristofferson) gets the case. Theoretical physicist professor Dr. Arnold Mayer shows unusual interest in the crash. The cockpit tape has a mysterious declaration "They're dead! All of them! They're burned up!" There are watches going backwards. Bill is approached by mysterious Louise Baltimore (Cheryl Ladd). They spend the night together but she disappears. He finds a mysterious device that stuns him. Then Louise and two women in strange outfits grab the device, jump through a portal and disappears.
The sci-fi concept and the story is actually quite interesting. The execution leaves a lot to be desired but the movie is still extremely memorable. The acting is below average. Kristofferson is stiff at the best of times and Cheryl Ladd is no award winner. The pacing is slow. This feels like a 70s movie despite being made in 89. The future design has some funky campy elements. The time travel idea is still interesting which makes the movie watchable.