In the late 21st Century an earthling and a Drac, on opposite sides of an outer-space dogfight, are downed together on an uninhabited planet, rather like Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune on an uninhabited island during World War II in Hell in the Pacific. These two learn to co-operate sooner, however, and even to speak one another's language, and they dive deeper into the mush-vat labelled Brotherhood-of-Man (or of Man and Drac, for that matter). The reptile costume worn by Louis Gossett, Jr., with its toadlike cranial bumps and its billowy membranes over his ears and at the corners of his mouth, succeeds very well in concealing his identity, except when he cocks his head unmistakably (or, of course, when he drops his Drackish gutturals and talks plain English), and it even raises the worthwhile possibility of a remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon. But if the slobbering sentimentalism doesn't do you in, the equally slobbering sadism will take a last crack at it. With Dennis Quaid; directed by Wolfgang Petersen. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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