Millenium Movie Review

A Federal Aviation Agency investigator finds temporal anomalies at plane crashes and is haunted by mystery woman Cheryl Ladd. It seems Earth's people 1,000 years from now are sterile and rotting. To keep humanity alive they send time-travel squads back to yank fresh, untainted people off doomed airliners, thus skirting apocalyptic time paradoxes – until Kris Kristofferson and Daniel J. Travanti begin putting the pieces together. John Varley's source novel (an expansion of his superior short story “Air Raid”) was so frazzled it required a cameo by God to sort things out. This Canadian adaptation has no such luck, and warps unsteadily between the serious premise and mere camp (much of the latter provided by a sarcastic robot). Good special effects.

1989 (PG-13) 108m/C CA Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Lloyd Bochner, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Maury Chaykin, David McIIwraith, Al Waxman; D: Michael Anderson Sr.; W: John Varley; C: Rene Ohashi; M: Eric N. Robertson. VHS, Beta, LV CCB