Synopsis
A young jungle man gets enamored by a naive and sweet princess and proceeds to show her the greatest sight to behold, a unicorn. This act proved to be fatal to the unicorn as its horn was taken by the Lord of Darkness henchmen. Earth fell to an cold abyss and the princess was held captive by the evil Lord. It is now up to the young man to defeat the Lord of Darkness, rescue the princess, bring back to life the unicorn, and return the world to what it was before tragedy befell it.
Our take
When we first watched this eons ago, we never get past the beautiful smile of a young Tom Cruise. In every scene we can only see him. Then in present time, we saw it was being shown in Amazon Prime Video, we can't resist the urge to watch this movie once again.
Tom Cruise still had that charming smile, the only difference is that we noticed how crooked some of his teeth were. Very much different from the Mission Impossible series we now know. Nevertheless, he was still awesome to watch and yes we now noticed that he can act. We love his bravado and his youth, matching beautifully with the story line. Although he doesn't look like a credible jungle man, we still overlooked this fact and focused on his acting, which we felt made the film enjoyable to watch.
Mia Sara was great as the sweet and naive princess. Although her sweetness sometimes turns bland along the way, she still have other tricks up her sleeve, thanks to her role here. In a section of the film, she transforms to an evil princess and showed how she can do a role reversal to a T. She made a few movies during her heyday but we like her the best in this one.
The acting by these two were commendable but I congratulate its Director Ridley Scott for giving us a wonderful fairy type of a film. 1985 doesn't have much in special effects but we loved the prosthetic involved in the characters and set production design. It created for us a beautiful earth and why we should protect the same. Using the best special effects at that time, we were glad that it was done so beautifully.
I don't know if you would agree with us, we would consider this one a cult classic. A story worthy of telling many times over, good versus evil, with the good winning in the end, with goblins, trolls, and an evil dark lord plus good direction and story telling skills, a pure winner by our naive standards.
