Phenomenon

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Summary: john travoltas best
Review: i loved it. it made me think about the entire world and minused out all the bullies that didnt have a heart. its just my all time favorite flick. it made me cry.

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Summary: One of Travoltas best
Review: Phenomenon like Michael were both made in 1996 and this is a great example of the genius of John Travolta picking great projects and taking risks to make the movies that test our spiritual senses. After all was this a spiritual movie or a science movie? Romance or on about how we treat people whom we call "different" or even gifted. The way the people around him were see saw in how they saw him. Both skeptic but also wanting to test him and get something from him themselves.

Then there were the underlying and I think well written "big government" questions when the main character is basically treated as an enemy of the government when it is discovered in his trying to help he is labeled a subversive of some sort.

John Travolta plays such gentle and wise souls so well. This an MICHAEL are favorites.

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Summary: A Movie That Makes You Look At Your Life And Think
Review: I watched this 3 times and each time, it makes me reflect about what life is all about. It's a very moving story. All the issues are very real: how your "friends" reacted due to their own unresolved fears, how one gets really scared when you can't handle the truth. It's also about love and friendship.

I aboslutely love John Travolta's acting in this movie. You can actually feel how contented he was at the beginning of the show when he was with his beer buddies celebrating his birthday and how that transformed into confusion and fear when things were happening to him. I could feel his fear like a child who does not understand how the world operates. And kudos to Kyra S. and her wonderful acting as a loving mother and hurt woman who only want peace in her new life.

This is a GREAT movie that makes you reflect about what life is all about and it makes you cry, so get those hankies out!

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Summary: good but not great
Review: i think this is a pretty good movie i actually went to see it two weeks in a row when it was out at the movies.now i own the tape.travolta gives a good performance.as does everyone else.i disaggre with the other viewres who said that this is one of the best movies of all time its not that great.Intersting factoid. david gallgher who plays sedwicks son. also start with travolta in look whos talking now.

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Summary: Wow, I was completely surprised
Review: This movie caught me by surprise. I never expected quality acting from John Travolta. Teamed with a top-notch story, Travolta shines in his role as an every-day-man, transformed in to a man with special intelligence, insight and talents.

As Travolta mind grows, the towns-folk minds begin to narrow. Had the movie been set a few centuries ago, Travolta surely would have been burned at the stake.

Best of all, this movie lends itself to multiple viewing.

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Summary: One of Travolta's best
Review: Phenomenon is a great movie in every sense. It's about a mechanic (John Travolta) that sees a bright light in the sky one night and wakes up the next morning to find out he's a genius. He knows things such as when and where an earthquake is about to strike, national defense secrets, and he learns a new language in a matter of minutes. All the while he's interested in a good looking woman (Kyra Sedgwick), and like the other people she is scared of Travolta's new power of knowing just about everything. Watch Phenomenon and you'll see how a man struggles with his friends and the media even though he knows just about everything and could do any job on earth since this light hit him.

John Travolta gives a phenomenal performance in Phenomenon and this is one of the most underrated movies of all time. Travolta and Phenomenon should've won a few oscars, but it wasn't even nominated for any. Kyra Sedgwick, Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, and the kids also give good performances throughout the film. Phenomenon is without a doubt John Travolta's best drama film so far and one of my favorite movies of all time. If you're a Travolta fan or you like drama movies, I recommend getting Phenomenon because it's phenomenal to say the least.

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Summary: The candle that burns twice as bright.
Review: I desperately wanted to see Phenomenon after I had seen its preview. The story of a man who mysteriously starts to change into a genius but retains his humanity, sounded too good to miss. It's nice to find a film with a bit of soul in this day and age.

There seemed to be a little controversy concerning the fact that Travolta played the lead. Apparently by belonging to the Church of Scientology some people mistakenly believed that his character was a portrayal of that organization's ideal human. Even if it were true I would have thought this would bring more people to their doors rather than less.

George Malley, (Travolta), is a small town motor mechanic, a likable man who is struggling to learn Spanish whilst trying to work up the courage to ask Lace, a reclusive single mother, (Kyra Sedgwick), out on a date. But his sedate life changes dramatically when on the evening of his birthday he sees lights in the sky and blacks out. From then on he finds it almost impossible to sleep and his friends start to notice differences in him.

His intelligence is amazing enough but when he shows talents in less conventional areas, many of the town's folks become nervous and even afraid. Despite the fact that he is doing nothing but good, they begin to draw away from him. All that is, except Nate, (Forest Witaker), his best friend, the town doctor, (Robert Duval), and Lace. The three of them manage to see the beauty within the man. That constant part of him that has not changed and is even more remarkable than his new abilities.

The film takes a darker turn when the government steps in and takes George away for testing. As the mood is plunged into chilled water and his future begins to look bleaker, we are warmed by the support of Doc and the love of his, by now, girlfriend Lace. This movie has the power to reaffirm a positive life and maybe even reverse a negative one. See it as soon as you can.

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Summary: Very Good
Review: I think this is a very well plot for the movie. It is very creative, and that's what i love to see in a movie. Also, I love John Travolta. He is a very good actor. This movie actually made me cry. It is very good.

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Summary: Stranger Than Fiction
Review: Travolta is everywhere, and he just keeps getting better and better. Here, as a man transformed by fate, he gives one of his most subtle and electrifying performances ever.

One evening, at a party to celebrate his 37th birthday, George stumbles outside, mug o' beer in hand, and is bowled over by a strange light in the sky. Is it a U.F.O. or is this country bumpkin seeing things? George's (and the whole town's) true astonishment comes when he discovers that now he's able to break secret government codes, predict earthquakes, and read four or five books a day. And in his free time he's designing cars that run on fertilizer. Now that's what I call getting the most out of your education.

Eventually the yokels turn against and reject what they can't understand. George becomes an oddity, some even believe a prophet. He's rounded up the feds, studied like a lab rat, and then left to deal with the consequences of his miraculous metamorphosis.

Phenomenon attacks its subject in an unpreachy, down-to-earth way that makes believability a given. Always engaging and life-affirming, it forgoes most of the mumbo-jumbo these kinds of tales often ply us with and takes on a simple, unassuming, and utterly affecting tone. And that's no hocus pocus.

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Summary: Really inteligent
Review: This was romantic and funny with drama in it to. And it dosent have a lot of kissing so that means younger kids can watch it to. Not like todlers or 3 or 4 year olds because it dose have some swearing in it. But other then that this movie is really inteligent and the person who wrote this knows what they where doing. I want to bye this movie know.