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Si ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ‘Enemy Mine’ is empty-headed Eugehe musician Eagle Park Slim greeted return ling students and faculty with his own brand of blues in Photo by Karen Stall wood —i—= - J * "Enemy Mine" is an ag gravating film. Director Wolfgang Petersen (of "Das Boot” fame) begins the story as a socially conscious version of "Hell In The Pacific.” with a deserted planet serving the place of a desert island and an intergalactic war replacing WW 11. He then throws in enough twists and cliches to populate three more films without ever fitting them satisfactorily into this one. • % Dennis Quaid is the flashy fighter pilot Willis Davidge who hates the dreaded lizard-like enemy, the Dracs. without ever really having seen one. Even tually he meets one after chas ing a craft into the atmosphere of a dead planet and crash lan ding. Davidge then proves himself to be a hateful racist when he meets the Drac. The Earth is right in this galactic war; they lay claim to the entire galaxy and the squat ter Dracs have their 30-day notice. It turns out the enemy Drac is a genuine philosopher-lizard — a thinker, a humanitarian and a lover of life. Open minded and intelligent; he learns English long before Davidge learns his tongue and he does not seek to kill Davidge (as Davidge at Courtny photo Willis Davidge (Dennis Quaid) and the Drac (Louis Gossett, Jr.) battle it out in the overly-cliched “Enemy Mine." tempts to dispatch the Dree), but only to hold him as a prisoner. It should not come as a sur prise that the two eventually have to rely on each other to survive, that they get to know each other and (surprise) become close friends. But here is where all parallels to “Hell In The Pacific” end. Did you know that Dracs are a unisexual race? They can have children all by themselves. Did you also know that human ore pirates hold Dracs as slave labor to help rape the resources of whatever - planet they happen upon? Do you'think, these facts might have an impact on the development of this film? ° I’ll give you a hint, they do, . much to the fault of .Petersen. The high-pointi; of the! first hajf, the devekipingaelationship bet- • ween Davidge and the Drac.'anti later between DaVidge and Jlittle Zammis, are matched.by empty-, headed. c/iclies°. in .the second hal.f that are° as'"stujjid .and / uninteresting as the,opening iis ' , intelfigentand inviting. ° .. : In • itsbest > moments./* Enemy Mine’’ Has ; the .same../ip”- . telligence/ df. the0 better ".Star Trek''! . episodes, -but s .unfpr-, • ■ tunately its .worst moments<feel > like something pul.of "Plan .9 From Out'erSpace." ‘ • . “Eneipy Wihe" is playing at. the VVest 1.1th • Tri-Cinema in • Eugene'. ' •.. 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