ENTERTAINMENT
Movie a tribute to ’40s cinema
By Lucas Gutman
Emerald Contributor
I! you haven't seen a movie
situ e the lt)-H).s, see /Vie Rm.k
I'trcr You'll think, line me
hasn't changed.much in all that
time.
l or that matter, if you wish
you hadn't seen a movie since
the ltMOs, see The Rih ke/oer,
because movies like this just
aren't made anymore
The good guys are true and
valiant, and the bad guys are
evil, mean and sneer a lot
There's a beautiful women our
hero lights for and a villain
who wants to take her awat
from him. This may sound in
nocent and'dopey, but it's actu
ally a relief to go to a movie
that doesn't confront viewers
with a lot of moral dilemmas
Yes, this is this summer's
movie-based-on a-comic-book
This time, the comic book is a
little known gem that came
from a small, independent com
ic book company in the early
lottos. But from this film, you
wouldn't know Tho Rut Ae/eer
is (ontemporarv
Likable Bill Campbell plays
stunt pilot Cliff Seooni, who,
along with his best friend and
mechanic, l’evey (Alan Arkin),
finds a mysterious rocket pack
that enables a person to fly
The pack is desperately wanted
by Nazis, gangsters and billion
aire Howard Hughes, who, in
this film anyway, created the
rocket.
Cliff is immediately forced to
run from all of these people
who would willingly kill for
the rocket. He assumes the
identity of The Kor ketoor!
Jennifer Connelly plays the
love of Cliffs life, lenny Some
how, the stunningly beautiful
Connelly manages to rise above
the underwritten role and be
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