Lee Breeze 10/1/26 Lee Breeze 10/1/26

Lost in Space (1998): Almost a Cult Classic

What do you get when a science-fiction adventure keeps moving faster than its own hyperdrive?
A film powered by confidence alone, shedding ideas as it goes, convinced that momentum will be enough.

Some films charge ahead. Some take their time. And some move so quickly between ideas they forget to let any of them land. Lost in Space (1998) is that third kind — a confident, expensive adventure that moves like a film in a hurry, explains, reassures, and pushes forward, rarely pausing long enough to let tension take hold. What should feel like momentum slowly turns into distance — scenes pass, rules blur, and consequence slips quietly out of frame.

There’s intelligence and effort on display, but very little patience. It can carry you across the galaxy, but it forgets the small packets of nuts and coffee — and you feel the absence long before the destination.

Lee Breeze 18/11/25 Lee Breeze 18/11/25

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001): Almost a Cult Classic

Some films crash, some soar, and some glide beautifully until they forget to deploy the landing gear. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is that third kind — visually breathtaking, emotionally adrift, and endlessly fascinated with its own mythology. It wants to be spiritual sci-fi poetry.

The movie delivers ghosts that steal souls, dreams that think they’re metaphors, and a world that somehow looks spotless after thirty years of disaster. It’s gorgeous, sincere, and occasionally baffling — the kind of movie that almost becomes profound before getting distracted by its own ambition.

Lee Breeze 20/10/25 Lee Breeze 20/10/25

Timecop (1994): Almost a Cult Classic

What do you get when you hand Jean-Claude Van Damme a time machine? Ninety minutes of flying kicks, bad science, and a plot that folds in on itself faster than spacetime after a paradox. Timecop (1994) had everything it needed to become a cult classic, but somewhere between the sparks and the synth, it lost the plot.

The movie teases a smart idea about policing time travel, then dodges its own consequences. The result? A film that can kick down a door but can’t open one into deeper storytelling. Still, there’s charm in the chaos. Between the goofy science, solid effects, and Van Damme’s half-heroic, half-melancholic glare, Timecop remains one of those rare near misses, a movie that almost makes you believe it could have been legendary.

Lee Breeze 30/8/25 Lee Breeze 30/8/25

Johnny Mnemonic (1995): Almost a Cult Classic

What do you get when you mix an expensive courier with Keanu Reeves in the 90s? Ninety minutes of cyberpunk ambition slowly losing a fistfight with its own budget. Johnny Mnemonic was meant to be William Gibson’s big screen moment, but it looks more like a dress rehearsal for The Matrix where someone forgot to pay the lighting bill.

Instead of sleek noir paranoia, we get polygon VR, a cyber-preacher assassin, and a dolphin that feels more like a punchline than tragedy. It’s not a cult classic because it nailed cyberpunk; it’s Almost a Cult Classic because you can see the good movie straining to get out from under the rubble.