ALIEN meets BASIC INSTINCT in this textbook illustration of what happens when millions of dollars' worth of technical expertise is brought to bear on a cheap, exploitative script. In a top-secret Utah laboratory, scientists prepare to murder a young girl, Sil (Michelle Williams), with cyanide gas, but she escapes and hops a Los Angeles-bound train. Project head Dr. Xavier Fitch (Ben Kingsley) assembles a curious team to catch the fugitive — ex-Marine assassin Press Lennox (Michael Madsen), anthropologist Stephen Arden (Alfred Molina), molecular biologist Laura Baker (Marg Helgenberger) and psychic empath Dan Smithson (Forest Whitaker) — telling them they're...
Released:
1995
Rated:
R
Length:
111 mins