暴风资源网提供本资源 Siskel and Ebert once ran a secial show entitled Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked. I suose that if I comosed such a list of guilty leasures, this one would be one of them . . . but uon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science rodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college rofessor William Atherton (in yet another of his atented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the rofessor's rize laser roject, not knowing that the rof is really develoing a government weaon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another rodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen u. This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more the dialogue is laced with shar wit; there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set u, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tae recorders instead of attending; later, at another lecture there are more tae recorders than students; and, in a final scene, one large tae recorder gives the lecture to a room oulated by nothing but other small recorders!); and throw-away scenes that make you want to sto and back u the tae (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 resence 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 roviding the erfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes really now, what's there to be embarrassed about
