Blast from the Past
Naive Adam Weber comes out into the world after being in a nuclear fallout shelter for 35 years. Adam must venture out into Los Angeles and obtain food and supplies for his family. He meets Eve, who reluctantly agrees to help him out.
1 December 1967, New York City, New York, USA
29 May 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
16 August 1956, Missoula, Montana, USA
25 January 1957, Kinloch, Missouri, USA
22 June 1985, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
20 January 1977, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
28 January 1909, New York City, New York, USA
15 August 1949, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
20 May 1974, Burlingame, California, USA
31 March 1943, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
March 21, 2014
Despite its faintly mechanical construction, Blast From The Past is very classy, and the improbable comic duo of Spacek and Walken provide the manic edge. Silverstone is good, engagingly grouchy but Fraser is indeed a blast.
March 21, 2014
Once the movie decides the air is clear and Fraser begins walking the earth, Blast becomes much spottier at hitting its comic targets and suffers from a bad case of the cutes.
March 21, 2014
Garish and not funny enough, Wilson's shapeless satire plods on, squandering its nice premise and its appealing actors. Miraculously, Fraser has a force field around him and manages to radiate energy in this comic black hole.
March 21, 2014
This fresh idea delivers some scintillating humor.
March 21, 2014
That's a relatively clever set-up for what's become a familiar genre: the time-displacement comedy, in which we get a kick out of viewing our era through another era's eyes. But this movie's eyes, Adam's, are awfully twinkly and not too focused.
March 21, 2014
Fraser is the sweet, goofy engine that drives this movie. The script doesn't do enough with his reactions to a world that bears little relation to the Cold War planet Adam has been told about, but Fraser still manages to suggest volumes.
March 21, 2014
Unfortunately Mr. Fraser comes off as a forlorn, outsize Pee Wee Herman.
March 21, 2014
Thanks to a clever script, tight direction, a first-rate cast and the dynamite combination of Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone, Blast from the Past blows away the recent crop of romantic comedies.
March 21, 2014
[A] bizarre hybrid of romantic comedy cliches and less-than-subtle social commentary.
March 21, 2014
It's pleasant enough, with Fraser's goofy charm particularly winning.
March 21, 2014
Blast From the Past saves its best for first.
March 21, 2014
Any movie with a rhyming title should be treated with suspicion. And Blast From The Past -- two films inconveniently rolled into one creaking rom-com -- is as bad as it gets.
