Fantastic Voyage, 1966. A submarine is shrunk and sent inside someone.
Directed by Richard Fleischer. Written by Harry Kleiner; adapted by David Duncan from a story by Otto Klement & Jerome Bixby. Starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Donald Pleasence & Arthur Kennedy.
Concept: 3/4 (Good)
Story: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Characters: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Dialog: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Pacing: 4/4 (Great)
Cinematography: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Special effects/design: 3/4 (Good). The sets and miniatures are great, but any shots that combine people with effects look pretty bad.
Acting: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Music: 3/4 (Good)
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, 3/4). I'm quite surprised that this wasn't crap. Even though it's often silly and has a fair amount of bad science, it reminds me a lot of A Space Odyssey. It has that slow, deliberate pacing (especially during the shrinking sequence), and usually seems more interested with science fiction ideas and visual spectacle than with plot and characters.
Objective Rating (Average): 2.6/4 (Good)
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