His search immediately leads him into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can reveal what she knows about the crash. But before he can ask any questions, she slips away.ĭriven now by rage (have the authorities withheld information?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (if there is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find the mysterious woman. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.Ī year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. It's simply that here on IMDB I get to wax philosophical about it.A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead-no survivors. I would always be prepared to hire out a Dean Koontz movie on the strength of his name alone. Having said all that, it IS a good movie. But against that is that there is not a single swear word, not a single glimpse of naked flesh where there is plenty of opportunity to include that if he wanted to. I also think that the violence is a little gratuitous. I see strong similarities between this movie and "Phantoms" in particular. This particular movie/story rolls along quite nicely, a lot of interest, possibly a little too long before the denouement, when we find out what's really going on. It seems that Koontz isn't quite comfortable with a good fantasy story, that he seems to "need" some kind of scientific justification, which he doesn't. The combination works well up to a point, but for reasons that I don't quite understand, it doesn't quite become "great". They are a combination of Stephen King fantasy, horror and mystery "supported", sort of, by a Michael Crichton "high tech". My one-line summary for this movie, and most of this critique, seems to hold for most Dean Koontz books/movies that I have read/seen.
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