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Starman [1984] Answering the invitation sent out with Voyager One, an alien spaceship
enters the Earth's atmosphere. By way of welcome, the US Air Force blast
it out of the skies. A blue ball of light escapes from the wreck and
breaks into widow Karen Allen's home, where it generates into Jeff Bridges,
an alien replica of her dead husband. He needs to be in Arizona so he
can meet his lift home, and forces her to drive him there. Apart from
the fact that Bridges is from outer space, Starman is
much like any other ill-matched-couple-on-the-road movie: Bridges and
Allen start out misunderstanding and fearing each other but eventually
fall in love, the government sends out lots of police cars and helicopters
to stop them, car crashes and some violent rednecks add a little action,
and Bridges learns that there are good and bad things about America.
Allen's nervous charm is affecting, but Bridges' jerky alien act gets
very irritating upon prolonged acquaintance. This is a pedestrian, but
thoroughly professional movie, casually expensive and shamelessly second-hand,
but its complete facelessness suggests that Carpenter, who used to make
terrifically lively B-pictures, has been replaced by a respectable,
studio line-toeing being from another world. First Published In: City Limits no.188 [10-16 May 1985] p.21 [UK] Visit Kim's Official Website at www.johnnyalucard.com
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