It's a really serious subject - the film knows that - and maintains it through excellent, gripping entertainment all the way to the end. And to me it seems much better than if it were to be getting bogged down in trying to make the film which is something so simple and starkly immensely meaningful into something that tries to be more believable in conclusion. I'm certainly not criticising the ending, it's what the film does. Yet the seriousness remains at the same time - it's a good idea for the topic where it is even relevant to show the theme in such a way as it is about certain elements of life being so divorced from the kind of everyday normality that most people would recognise. Telly Savalas provides some welcome relief in a less serious role, just as the plot and script veer off more into the kind of pulpish, science fiction ending. Such is the quality that even cameos are so well done, such as when Gould's character tries to find his friend played by Walden and comes across an unknown lady in an appartment he is looking around. The other starring roles are very well to excellently played, whether in desert outdoors or studio, and even small parts are at least finely achieved, Robert Walden - to really great, Elliot Gould's character's female journalist companion. While some actors are given writing which enables them to amazingly excel, making some of the finest performances on film - Hal Holbrook, Karen Black and Elliot Gould particularly. That this happens fortunately to combine with classic acting, action and human importance of the theme makes for one of the greatest moments in cinema. Here is one of the best classics of storyboard, script and editing together. Within that, each actor shines so well at least in the very effective constraints of the formula. The acting is so well carried off, fitting in perfectly with the so finely honed, most simple formula idea. It is like a really simple formula, really, really simple that has been so finely honed to perfection in simple story telling, as a gripping thriller with exiciting scenes and in terms of greatly effecting cinematography.

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