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C apricorn From page 10 Capricorn One contains some pretty good action scenes, hoVvever iinhplipvnhlp WVion tho hpolrou ?? v ft ?V?? V4IV M& wnvo \/tl Gould's car fail there is a pretty wild runaway scene through the crowded streets of Houston. But of course he misses all the traffic and finally plunges into a river where he swims easily to safety. One of the final scenes involves a chase between a crop dusting plane, carrying the hunted, and two helicopters, bearing the himfarc TVin coniiAn/tn ? ? UUlltVI O AIA^ OU\|UCllCC LU1IUIII13 some pretty fast action and some dangerous stunts. However, the shots fired at the plane seem to always miss the occupants. PERHAPS THESE unbelievable occurences are the problem with the film. There are other scenes just as amazing. Brolin travels across the desert for days without water. Trapped in a cave, he miraculously kills a rattlesnake for food. Can this endurance be attributed to strenuous astronaut training? Indeed this movie seems at times like an episode of "Barnaby Jones/' in which a few good men fall by the wayside, but the heroes 'GlimiilMk inon??i?Aiii?*nWA ~ uui T1TV I1IOU1IIIUU1IUIU1C |SiUUldU?> with superhuman luck or endurance. Yet, for all its predictability, Capricorn One does work as an action film. But the action moves quickly, leaving little time for the characters to be developed. Credit should go to director Hyams for exploring an interesting possibility. But Capricorn One, unfortunately, is one of those flicks that will probably end up on television within six months. nf -m ur no m I . |HBBB|HHMB^^M J^r | '' >.aiflE^fl^BHl9nB9B& ^^K/ ?'->:::-v:;;fx- :^ij^ &A Undersea novel stale D.. D~ ?A VI tf w* mjj uai wii d. van oeenen Gamecock Staff Writer When is the last time you felt someone had made a sucker out of you, or have been lured with all the sophistication and charms of an accomplished temptress, but when it was all over it had been for nothing. When you enter Martin Caidin's latest novel, AQUARIUS MISSION, with eager anticipation, you will soon discover that vnllt* ctimllnn K11 ?' ? * ' ? " " " ;vvu ottwaiv.Ii uaiiwu ui expectations nas nzzied out. Caidin has taken the post-nuclear war environment away from the class B movies and created an entirely possible world of the Communist Chinese vs. the rest of the world. The survivors desperately search the oceans for oil, fish and crop supplements. Ocean research has become the order of the day. The stage is set for the main character, Jerry Manning, captain of the research submarine U.S.S. Sea Trench to enter, and the plot to begin its destruction of your illusions of grandeur. Because of a series of "accidents" in the Aleutian Islands, the Sea Trench is ordered to investigate. A living dome of algae is discovered at a depth of ten miles. Caidin must have realized i At ? - ' - - * now me reaaer may oe catching on to his own seduction, and so immediately begins pumping up the sagging story with a beautifully created underwater civilization. This society is complete with green men who can speak English, breath either air or water, and use advanced genetic controls to accomplish what we do with mechanical technology. After the brief revival of interest, the excitement drops to the B-movie level with a poorly written battle with giant jelly fish, and a mention of thousands of tons of Chin*?#M* H-hnmhc cot ?? ? watavw WW W ?)Vr off at the slightest mechanical disturbance. You have now been left with a limp literary mess never having obtained the satisfaction of a deep sign, or the shivering shutter of a near miss. 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