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So-so SF
All the pieces are good. A Mysterious Object appears in central Asia. Our Hero is recruited (under duress) to analyze it. He has no special qualifications, except for being generally good at figuring things out. He tries desperately to do the job he was ordered to do, but the ever-present military does what the military usually seems to do: get confused, issue contradictory orders as a result, and get more confused. Governments do what governments do: squabble over who owns something that no human agency could possibly own.

The end of the world begins, Our Hero is destroyed at ground zero in a nuclear explosion, he recovers nicely, and we get a happy ending. The pieces are good, but come together as an ordinary story.

There is some originality here. The mysterious inverted cone was highly original when Roger Dean used it on album covers in the 1970s. The white-on-white inner sanctum was very original; at least it was in Kubrick's 2001 (also from the 70s). The inexplicable healing forces may have been original in the movie E.T. Yes, there was lots of originality here. Unfortunately, it was mostly other people's originality.

It's a safe, watchable SF movie. There's not a lot of violence, and adult themes appear only as hints off screen. There are lots of better movies out there, but lots worse too.