In this film a woman scientist teams up with a religious "Watcher" as a minor "Romeo and Juliet" type romance. In this regard, the basic theme of the story comes through. Some of societies' superstitions and religious beliefs have a basis in fact. The film is designed to show the rift between science and religion as far as prophecy and causation. It seems every 1,000 years it goes pitch black and everyone panics. May its producers, actors, and script-writers rot in Hell!Īeon is a planet with 6 suns and it is never dark.except for that one time. As to this abomination, I can't find enough words to abhor it. I mean, when I watched Bicentennial Man, I had felt betrayed. Pity that Asimov (with the probable exception of Fantastic Voyage) could never be cinematised correctly. It is, in short, a grave insult to a wonderful author who gave us everything modern SF is working with from robots to the main ideas of the Star Wars, Star Trek (even Star Trek's famous insignia is from Asimovian Empire's starship-and-sun sign), and many other films and novels. I, for one, am ashamed of this whole effort and I hope the video ruts in shelves. The characters in the short story then became characters of a novel -not as good- by Asimov and Robert Silverberg, but nothing in it suggested such terrible imagination at the part of the script-writer.
It's surely an abomination to the works and memory of the great master of Science-Fiction and I am totally appalled by the awfulness, stupidity, shallowness, and total lack of respect to the original script. The film is totally crap, acting is awful, the script's based on the astronomer's stupid daughter's antics and a shabby love-story between her and a priest/guard, and I simply can't believe how Asimov's estate allowed this piece of crap to be filmed.
It's nothing like the story, there's nothing in common other than there are six suns around the planet, there's a scientist, and the night surely falls to madden people who had never experienced a night for 1,000 years. As an Isaac Asimov fan, and sharing the idea that "Nightfall One," his SF story is possibly the best SF story ever written with many others, I had hopes on this film.
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