Blast from The Past

Any movie with a rhyming title should be treated with suspicion. And Blast From The Past - two films inconveniently rolled into one creaking rom-com - is as bad as it gets. It starts out promisingly enough, as a period sci-fi parody, and anything that pairs Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek deserves some commendation. The two create nicely etched comic characters as the paranoid scientist and his closet-boozing little wife, with Walken's performance - far subtler than we've come to expect of him - easily the best thing on show.

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