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I enjoyed this film, because it is about Italian Americans. A possible remake of Truffaut's film no doubt. Susan Lucci is good in this film. An unpretentious film, well performed and honest.

As soon as I saw the ad of this film, I told myself that I had to watch this film. I read some of the review that appear in this column, and noticed how some liked it very much and others dispised it. I belong to the first category. I love films on extraterrestial life. But I have been disappointed so many times. I loved and watched The Intruders (Richard Crenna) and still believe it is one of the finest films to be made on the topic. Here the theme is not abduction. It is communication. And interconnection can happen only with numbers. Yes, mathematics is the main protagonist's (Derek) obsession. But this is normal, we are dealing with twenty-year old students of mathematics. Mathematic is the common denominator throughout the film. But it could have been photography as in Blow Up or sound as in Blow Out. Here it is an equation that makes us discover what there is to discover. I wept in certain scenes as I would have wept in a scene wherein a long distance runner outdoes himself in order to step over the end line. There are many moments in this film when we feel such emotion, and these occur especially during these seconds that show us Derek reaching for his goal and attaining it. This is a very brilliant film. Not because it delves in mathematical equations. It is just as good as Green Book or Bohemian Rhapsody or Cold War. The main character aims at a target and hits it on the bull's eye. Here is belief in greatness of humankind when there is so much that points to the opposite direction. The acting is superb, the director constant, stalwart, unwavering. The music is atmospheric, and never intrusive. And the eyes, the eyes, how they haunted me.

It surprised you. You who love this sort of thriller, this sort of film most people toss aside as being of second or third order. You know, No big name, no naked beauties, no super thin unshaven men... how can you even tell people that this sort of film Is better than most of the stuff you are told is great. You have to admit it, you have to say, Yes, I enjoyed this film. No vulgarity, but a lot of intended sexuality, corruption, a great story line, adapted from Follet's novel (it seems you have to buy the novel, because it is better than the film but the film is amazing, so you tell yourself, that story can't be true, but I will order myself a copy...), you love the music, the plot twists that never stop, the acting, they are all absolutely refined. Kelly McGillis awesome, Gedrick oustanding -- you'll know why -- watch it again. That's what I did.