Jeff Bridges gives a funny, good and quirky performance as alien, balanced by a sympathetic, doe-eyed Karen Allen, who we last saw in Animal House. (Blow Out's Nancy Allen is no relation.) It's pretty swishy. Has not much depth. Charles Martin Smith is pursuing them, but you know he's going to let them get away. You can fly as many helicopters as you've got into the crater but it won't change anything. Special effects in eighties films are nuts.
The alien civilisation has one language, no war, and the strong don't exploit the vulnerable. But they don't have singing, or apple pie. They're a hundred thousand years more advanced than we are, but America is still better.
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