剧情介绍
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 w it; there are some l ovely scene s that have n othing to do with the sto ry yet are c arefully se t up, alm ost as blac kouts (e. g., Mitch goes to a lectu re at which a few stu dents have l eft tap e recorders instead of attending; later, at a nother lecture there are more tape re corders than students; and, in a final sce ne, one l arge tape re corder g ives the lectur e to a room populate d by not hing but othe r small rec orders!); and throw- away scene s that make you want t o stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-ha ndedly cutting a slice off a bar o f solid ni trogen to ma ke a slug for the cof fee mac hine). It ' s also one of the few mov ies to bo ast the prese nce of the mem orable Mich elle Me yerink -- as J ordan, the &a mp;quot;g irl-nerd&q uot; who made be ing sma rt and fema le some thing to be emulated . And there& ;#39;s Tears f or Fears g reat song, &am p;quot; Everybo dy Want s to Rule th e World& ;quot; pro viding the p erfect coda as the closing cre dits begin to roll . . . . Yes: really now, wha t's there to be embarras sed about?详情
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