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...not a great movie but a reliable one, with another solid performance from Sean Connery, who always makes a staunch, stalwart protagonist of truly heroic proportions.

While there are several mile-wide plot holes and one key under-developed main character, the film emerges as a tight, intriguing old-fashioned drama that gives audiences a hero worth rooting for.

Connery and Boyle are fine, but the wholesale lifting of High Noon's plot certainly undermines interest.

The failure of director-writer Peter Hyams to put any weight whatever behind the moral issues (crude as they are) makes this merely violent nonsense.

Because both dialogue and direction are none too exciting, one's tired eyes wander endlessly over the space base sets.