Sphere

The movie has an interesting premise. What happens when humans contact an alien golden sphere that manifests their dreams? Apparently people dream about killer jellyfish and killer deep sea fish with huge spiny jaws, pickled worms that look like feces, invisible giant squids and hordes of killer pillows.

The movie takes place mostly in the dark so it very hard to keep track of where you are, who is present, and what anyone is doing. This movie does not work at all on the small screen.

When reality takes off on a tangent morphing like an acid trip, it felt like being trapped on a merry go round. I felt dizzy and wanted to get off, but the movie kept going and going and going repeating the same chaos, squirting water and loud noises in endless theme and variation. I was SO glad when the movie finally ended.

The acting is so wooden, and the characters so sullen, you don't care if any of the characters survive the ordeal other than Norman, the Dustin Hofmann character who holds the movie together single handedly.