real_hiflyer

This movie deserves a much higher rating. Robin Williams is as talented with drama as he is with comedy. Unfortuneatly his dramatic works seems to be a series of good movies which slipped through the cracks. I've found him excellent in all.

You don't have to agree with the concepts of life and death, and Heaven and Hell, to enjoy this movie. One concept has been taken here and presented beautifully. Special effects were fantastic for their time, and having just watched it again, still stand up well now. That's because the story is the vehicle here, CGI just one of the tools used. This is a love story through and through, and at a time when I needed it, reminded me of what true love is really supposed to be about.

To all who called this a classic, I agree absolutely. After so many years it still resonates with me as much as it did when I first saw it. Robin Williams is so underrated. And Ms. Sciorra shines in this movie too. I give it a ten with no equivocation whatsoever.

How this movie has a 4.2 rating I'll never understand. For writer director editor Frank Robak it is without doubt a labor of love. Kent Harper, co-producer and principal actor does a marvelous job as he evokes a universal emotion in us all, and touches on some facet of each viewer's life in his frustration in not being able to comprehend why things are as they are, why people visit violence upon each other, why life itself seems cruelest in giving us those things we love most and then taking them away. It's not your typical movie. It's more an examination of the state of our world and the ways in which we interact with each other, whether purposely, negatively, or simply in passing. And the affect these interactions have. Definitely one to watch again, a great surprise, and a lesson to me to go with your gut and read these viewer's offerings here, so as to not put more onus on it's 4.2 rating which would cause so many, including me, to normally just pass it by.