Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked. I suppose that if I composed such a list of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college professor William Atherton (in yet another of his patented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the professor's prize laser project, not knowing that the prof is really developing a government weapon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another prodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen up. This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more the dialogue is laced with sharp wit; there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set up, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tape recorders instead of attending; later, at another lecture there are more tape recorders than students; and, in a final scene, one large tape recorder gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but other small recorders!); and throw-away scenes that make you want to stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-handedly cutting a slice off a bar of solid nitrogen to make a slug for the coffee machine). It's also one of the few movies to boast the presence of the memorable Michelle Meyerink -- as Jordan, the girl-nerd who made being smart and female something to be emulated. And there's Tears for Fears great song, Everybody Wants to Rule the World providing the perfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes really now, what's there to be embarrassed about
主演:戴姆森·伊德瑞斯,卡特·哈德森,艾米莉·里奧斯,塞爾吉奧·佩里斯-門切塔,阿明·約瑟夫,Angela Lewis,Isaiah John,Filipe Valle Costa,阿隆·阿布布爾,Malcolm M. Mays,朱迪斯·斯科特,喬納森·塔克,雷格·愛德沃茲,阿蘭娜·烏巴赫,德雷·戴維斯,尼克·畢肖普,李升熙,蓋爾·比恩,泰勒·科瓦爾斯基,喬恩·查芬,喬納森阿維多瑞,亞當·卡斯特,斯蒂芬妮·納什,Emma Schlamme,裏卡多·亞當·扎拉提,羅納德·里根