What's to say? Docu-drama that changed movie making. Up-and-coming director, hungry actors, a script based on a true story. Watch and see for yourself.
A jazz student is driven to achieve perfection through personal goals and an obsessive teacher. Both are on a narrow path that could result in mutual destruction. Great cast, excellent music, and performances equal to the level of intensity needed to achieve greatness as an artist.
Good movie with action that tries to be a (dark) comedy. Should have stuck with the action and not tried as hard to be funny. Most of the gags were lame and a few in bad taste. Costner brings it.
Great SF movies are those that place the characters in a speculative setting that allows the story to evolve through their thoughts and actions and moves us to question and react to the choices made. No monsters or shocking gross-outs. This is such a movie. Lots of dialogue and hidden agendas. If you want action, aliens, sword and laser fights, then look elsewhere.
If you love Action and SF with a revisionist twist, then this is your film. I especially enjoyed the few scenes included as an homage to the original film (and the twists). I am not sure that I totally buy the premise of travelling through the earth's core, but that's just Hollywood poetic license.