Friday, December 10, 2010

Epoch (2001)

A mystery monolith appears in Bhutan and brings a boy back from the dead. This causes the US military to request the help of a consultant known for his hunches to try to figure out what the heck this giant thing is.

There is friction with China, who wants in on the action and does not like the US taking control of the object. If anyone dies, the monolith is able to heal them. This takes quite a bit of tension out of the movie, such as when two of the main characters are trying to dive out of the spinning monolith and have to land on a narrow platform. Really? Because if you miss and plummet to your death, the thing will heal you, so why all the fuss?

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