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I came to this film with improper expectations, seeing as how it only has a 53% determined RottenTomatoes.com rating and a lot of critics panned it as being corny and sentimental.

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Actually this is a very well-behaved film, largely carried by the strong cast of John Travolta, Kyra Sedgewick, Forest Whitaker and Robert Duvall. Yes there are a few corny moments especially towards the destroy but they were forgivably brief not tediously drawn out, compared to your typical Hollywood tearjerker which this is not. I won’t give away the ending except to say that it is not one of your dime a dozen and-they-lived-happily-ever-after things.

“Phenomenon” actually has a lot of Eastern philosophy gradual it—the thought that we are all connected at a deep cosmic and psychical level which most of us never imagine nor dare to access, as well as the Fresh Ageish plan that we only exhaust about 10% of our brains’ fleshy capabilities.

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Travolta is known to be a Scientologist, which made me wonder a slight how distinguished that might have influenced this film which is nowhere approach as kooky as your standard Scientology doctrine which you can net from L. Ron Hubbard’s harmful (science fiction) book, “Dianetics.”

I took me awhile to score on to the John Travolta “comeback.” Always a superb actor, he is trancendent in “Phenomenon.” Taking his character of George, struck by a mysterious light, and turning him from an average man to a genius, could have been an actor’s trap. Travolta makes it his triumph. He gives George such a humanity that even with the genius powers we are aware that George of obsolete is peaceful there, trying to desparately to unprejudiced be his archaic self, and only the girl he longs for, played excellently by Kyra Segwick seems to understand his wanting to remain the same, no matter how many “miracles” he performs. So many films like this are too serious, spend too many special effects, or are impartial dumb ridiculous. Travolta enormous performance seems to bewitch the entire genre and wins us over like he does Segwick and her two children. The supporting cast is estimable, especially Robert Duvall, who does miraculous things with the town doctor. Forrest Whittiker is also honorable as George’s best friend. The town accepts the miracles like no other movie town does. Yes, they are in horror, but they aloof doubt, as George doubts, that he was given a gift as a mistake, but when all is said and done, we know the “sparkling light” made the good choice, that he was able to even handle his enjoy mortality. There is a scene come the extinguish of the movie, when George is sharing his last moments and an apple with the two young children, that is as spellbinding as any I’ve seen in unique memory. Some may survey “Phenomenon” as too far-fetched or mauldlin, and if so they are as jaded as many movie goers are getting. What does an audience want? Here is a movie without grand violence, blood, or spectacular special effects and does have a message but does not force it on you, how all of us have the possibility to be more than we judge, that there is genius on a microscopic scale, in the feelings for adore, simple pleasures, sharing an apple with children, or facing one’s bear mortality without dismay. A tall Movie.