Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, 2004, Angelina Jolie
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a film released on September 17, 2004 in the United States. It was written and directed by Kerry Conran, in his directorial debut. The film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Michael Gambon, Giovanni Ribisi, Angelina Jolie and Sir Laurence Olivier. It is set in New York City in an alternative 1939 and is a pulp adventure style science fiction adventure film.
Composer Edward Shearmur has written the film's lavish orchestral score, in the style of Hollywood's golden-age composers, and its end-title sequence features a new recording of the Oscar-winning standard "Over the Rainbow" sung by the acclaimed young American jazz singer Jane Monheit - all featured on Sony Classical's original motion picture soundtrack recording. ...
... Edward Shearmur (The Wings of the Dove, Charlie's Angels) has created a musical backdrop for the film that evokes the opulent sound of golden-age Hollywood scores, and Jane Monheit's vocal of "Over the Rainbow" over the end titles brings a wistful conclusion to a story that ends on the eve of World War II. ...
Although the movie had high box office expectations, opening at #1 on its September release date, the movie earned at the box office grossing only $37.8 million in the United States from an estimated $40 million budget. Critical reviews, while largely positive, still did not drive audiences to the theatre.
The film garnered positive reviews with 73% of national film critics praising the film as aggregated by RottenTomatoes.com.
Noted film critic Roger Ebert was among those who strongly supported the film, giving it a 4-star review and praising it for "its heedless energy and joy, it reminded me of how I felt the first time I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass through reality along the way." Stephen Holden of The New York Times lauded its visuals and its evocation a bygone era but felt that "the monochromatic variations on sepia keep the actors and their adventures at a refined aesthetic distance...At times the film is hard to see. And as the action accelerates, the wonder of its visual concept starts giving way to sci-fi clichés."
The Canadian network Space: The Imagination Station awarded it the 2005 Spacey Award for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Film.
The film is also one of few to be awarded five stars by IGN filmforce.Wikipedia
