Top cast:Eric Bana,Anna Torv,Deborra-Lee Furness
Director:George Tillman Jr.
Genre:Thriller
Region:Czech Republic
Year:2002
Storyline:While Dreyfus searched through Fort Point (an abandoned armory at the southern entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge) for weapons to arm the survivors against the apes, Malcolm chose additional members for a team to accompany him into the forest (in two trucks): Foster (Jon Eyez), Kemp (Enrique Murciano), and Carver...6:15 p.m.Sound detectors and seismographs registered explosion due east.At 6:18, magnetometer revealed deviation 12 degrees, 20 minutes east...Such deviation possible only if a disturbing force equivalent o 20,000 tons of steel or iron ore...had become part of the Earth at about a 50-mile radius."Hendry hypothesized that it was a large meteorite, but Carrington's aide Dr.Will Redding (George Fenneman) explained how a special telescopic camera had picked up evidence of radioactivity, suggesting it wasn't a meteor:"On the appearance of radioactivity, a Geiger counter trips the release and the cameras function.He predicted that her future rested in the 'land of the winds' (where the ghostly Native Americans used to live) - a place that would likely cause her to go mad.The terrified man is left hanging there to witness the death.He gazes down on the pinwheel-shaped body of the policeman flattened on the pavement.The image of the man suspended here - dangling helplessly from the rooftop and downward-looking - [his rescue is never displayed] will be the overriding, symbolic, emotional and psychological position that he will remain in throughout he rest of the film.The words of the romantic Stan Jones ballad (sung by The Sons of the Pioneers) hat play during the credits,What Makes a Man to Wander?, define the central theme of the film - one man's wanderings and obsessive search:What makes a man to wander?What makes a man to roam?What makes a man leave bed and boardAnd turn his back on home?Ride away, ride away, ride away.