Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, June 27, 1991, Page 5, Image 5

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    ROCKETEER
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more than just the damsel in distress
Timothy Dalton is Neville Sinclair, .1 Hollywood matinee idol .1
hi Errol Flynn who is se< retly a Nazi He tries to use Jenny to get to
Cliff and the jet pack The audience knows this guv is <1 sleaze from
the beginning, but the other char,it lers don't catt h on to until later
Dalton is suitably nasty.
The stunts in this movie are great Director Joe Johnston; whose
onh previous feature was the spet l.d .effects bonanza Hnnr\ I
Shrunk the Kids. seems as comfortable in the air as on land
At limes, the aerial scenes put the audient e in Cl ill's perspet
tive On the big si reen, these work great
Some will complain that the movie is tcni-simplistic, m both plot
and morality For example, the supremely bizarre -Howard Hughes
is portrayed as no more than a extraordinarily rich c m
But simple is exactly what this, movie wants to be liven the
film's gangsters, when they find out they havt been working I r a
Nazi, turn against him. saying, ' We may be crooks, but we re
Americans, through and through! It s this kind of gleeful flap, wav
ing in not enc e that many viewers w ill find so appealing
My one complaint with this picture is that for a movie--with s<
little plot, the characters talk too much The movie is exciting and
it has a good share of action, but I would hav e liked ov m m •: e
All the actors seem to have a clear idea of vv hat the I ilm si a out to
be The plot is functional but not terribly imaginative.. Perhaps that
will change in the inevitable sequels As an origin storv. it s effet
tive and exciting
If watching movies has become a chore lot you, with'.complex
morality plays and plots that tw ist and turn like a si few • Tin
Kockrleor It tries to lie fun, and it is
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