Sphere

(Warner)

Barry Levinson ventures into the sci-fi genre with this adaptation of Michael Crichton's science-fiction bestseller Cube, and the result is plodding and dreary, a waterlogged hodge-podge of Alien, Forbidden Planet, and Crichton's own The Andromeda Strain. With Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Liev Schreiber, and Peter Coyote as the enigmatic team leader.