
Prologue: a driver has a big surprise with his passenger. Segment 1 ("Time Out"): a bigot hates Jews, Black and Asians. One day he will live in World War II, be hunted down by the KKK and get attacked in the Vietnam War and feel the effects of his hatred. Segment 2 ("Kick the Can"): In a nursing home, the elder inhabitants learn that their minds can keep them young. Segment 3 ("It's a Good Life"): a traveler hits a boy in a bicycle with her car and takes the boy home. Soon sh... (Full plot summary below)
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Prologue: a driver has a big surprise with his passenger. Segment 1 ("Time Out"): a bigot hates Jews, Black and Asians. One day he will live in World War II, be hunted down by the KKK and get attacked in the Vietnam War and feel the effects of his hatred. Segment 2 ("Kick the Can"): In a nursing home, the elder inhabitants learn that their minds can keep them young. Segment 3 ("It's a Good Life"): a traveler hits a boy in a bicycle with her car and takes the boy home. Soon she learns that the powerful boy brought her home indeed. Segment 4 ("Nightmare at 20,000 feet"): a writer is scared to fly and soon he sees a monstrous creature destroying the airplane engines during a stormy night.
Leave your thoughts about Twilight Zone: The Movie.
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.A bland and lazy rehash of the best episodes of the series... |
| The Film YapNick RogersWhere does it land? A fifth dimension beyond that known to most films. The middle ground between wowing & worthless, between so great & so what, and it lies between the pits of recklessly fatal hubris and the very summit of spirited genre filmmaking. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonLike all anthology films, this one has its high and low points, and not where you'd expect. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatTwilight Zone takes us back to Rod Serling's television dimension where things are not what they seem and fate is full of devious twists and turns. |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. Puccio...doesn't quite capture the magic of the old television series, but it makes a good stab at trying. |
| Common Sense MediaCharles CassadyTV show is much better; some mature themes, violence. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrMiller [leaves] no doubt that he was the finest stylist to emerge in the early 80s, with a sense of narrative rhythm linked to visual development that is wholly original and ravishing. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelThe first two are total stinkers, but things pick up with Joe Dante's creepy, claustrophobic, and very funny study of a brattish kid who lives in a cartoon universe, and come slamming home with George Miller's final sketch about a paranoid airline passenger. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceThe last two segments are genuine bits of magnificence |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe beauty of Twilight Zone -- The Movie is the same as the secret of the TV series: It takes ordinary people in ordinary situations and then (can you hear Rod Serling?) zaps them with "next stop -- the Twilight Zone!" |