Unravels at the end, but the world needs more intelligent, quiet science fiction.

Very enjoyable and intelligent movie that would have scored higher if the ending had been better. Very much in the style of other bleak 70s sci-fi, although it does have some oddly humourous touches in the second half. My only gripe is the rather surreal ending where we're left to figure out for ourselves what happened. Sometimes this works well, but here it just seems that the writers didn't really know how to end it either. Definitely worth a look if bleak, thoughtful sci-fi is your thing.

Often with "sci-fi" movies you get people complaining that there's too much lasers and action and not enough ideas, which is what true science fiction is all about. Now this film is exactly the opposite: it's nothing but ideas, with all other cinematic aspects seeming amateurish and goofy, if not unambitious.

Awesome mind bending sci-fi flick. Its low budget, with some less than convincing effects, but this is true science fiction...it's less about lasers and explosions and more about ideas, and this flick presents excellent ideas in spades. Well worth your time.

Well, the cinematic value is a little lacking (though I thought the two leads did a fine job), but I can't help admiring the vision as the story is consistently enthralling and thought-provoking; the finale of Haber was especially affecting.

Awful piece of film. Even for it's low production cost it seems ammateurish; it fails on absolutely every aspect, like the cardboard-deep characters, horrid dialog and an incoherent surrealist ending that doesn't have anything to do with anything anywhere in this film or outside it. If anything, I wish I could just dream this film away. That is, without causing some retarded alien invasion, of course. grey people lol

It goes a little incoherent near the end, but then why shouldn't it--the established realities of the film are changing over and over again. What an interesting film! Very effective for its PBS budget and limited locations. Loved the sea turtle-aliens. I don't particularly agree with its Taoist message, but I never really liked Dr. Haber anyway. The film could have done a better job of making him sympathetic.