Fantastic Voyage (Special Edition) Review
I think this film has aged well considering that it is a special effects driven movie from the 60s it still manages to work and captivate today. An important scientist with knowledge the US army needs has had an accident and suffered brain damage. A group of five are shrunk down inside a submersible ship to travel through the scientist's body so they can fix the damage. One of them may be an assassin. There is lots of interesting places that they visit in the body and set designs are enormous. Fantastic voyage keeps your attention throughout and is good fun through and through especially the last six minutes that should keep you on the edge of your seat. Memorable and worth watching again and again.
Fantastic Voyage (Special Edition) Feature
- Scientist Jan Benes, who knows the secret to keeping soldiers shrunken for an indefinite period, escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with the help of CIA agent Grant. While being transferred, their motorcade is attacked. Benes strikes his head, causing a blood clot to form in his brain. Grant is ordered to accompany a group of scientists as they are miniaturized. The crew has one hour to get in B
Fantastic Voyage (Special Edition) Overview
After an attempted assassination of a diplomat, a submarine and its crew of scientists and doctors is shrunk to microscopic size and injected in to the diplomat's bloodstream to save his life.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: NR
Release Date: 5-JUN-2007
Media Type: DVD
Fantastic Voyage (Special Edition) Specifications
2001: A Space Odyssey took the world on a mind-bending trip to outer space, but Fantastic Voyage is the original psychedelic inner-space adventure. When a brilliant scientist falls into a coma with an inoperable blood clot in the brain, a surgical team embarks on a top-secret journey to the center of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colorless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasance is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvelous: scuba-diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply, and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Director Richard Fleischer, who turned Disney's 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea into one of the most riveting submarine adventures of all time, creates a picture so taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturized humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --Sean Axmaker
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