Project X

1987

Action / Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

50
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 55% · 19 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 55% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 13383 13.4K

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Plot summary

A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.

Director

Jonathan Kaplan Photo
Jonathan Kaplan

Top cast

Catherine Paolone Photo
Catherine Paolone as Miss Decker
Michael Eric Kramer Photo
Michael Eric Kramer as Lt. Voeks
Jonathan Stark Photo
Jonathan Stark as Sgt. Krieger
Robin Gammell Photo
Robin Gammell as Col. Niles
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988.68 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 2
1.98 GB
1918*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 21

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by view_and_review 7 / 10

This Was No Monkey Business

I saw Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt and thought, "Comedy." Comedy it was not.A chimpanzee by the name of Virgil left the comfy confines of a Wisconsin University for the cramped cages of Lockridge Air Force Base in Florida. There he was being trained to do flight simulations by Jimmy Garrett (Broderick). Jimmy was enjoying his job until he found out what the chimps were truly being used for: to test their ability to withstand radiation while flying. These chimpanzees were being routinely killed presumably to find out how a U.S. pilot would fare in the same situation.Sad, I know. Jimmy had grown attached to Virgil and couldn't bear to see him sacrificed in such a manner. This movie actually tugs at the heart strings. We can easily rationalize harming other creatures for the benefits of mankind, but this was a sad case. I don't want to prop this movie up like it's an Oscar-worthy movie, but it was done well.
Reviewed by FiendishDramaturgy 7 / 10

Sad. Enriching, But Sad, And Very Well Done.

Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt. An Air Force pilot rescues smart chimps from lab experiments at a strategic-weapons research center, but then has to figure out what to do with them.This film will break your heart, if you have a love for animals. You are introduced to the chimps (they're given CHARACTER development, if you can dig it), then you are shown what happens TO the chimps in this research center, and then you are shown what happens because of this treatment. Once you are emotionally invested in the premise, the tension of the surrounding atmosphere begins to build until the climactic crescendo.This is actually not as bad as I remembered, but not as good as I hoped, watching from a more mature perspective. The performances are typical of the time, perhaps a tad better, but this work is horribly dated, as is practically everything from that era. I wouldn't say it rates a remaking, as it's fine as it is, but someone will in order to carry a "fresh" message that what goes on in these laboratories is wrong. Eventually, we'll see posters and ad blurbs for Project NeXt or something like that.All in all, it's good for a rainy Sunday, but don't set your hopes real high, and ... in spite of the levity , heartwarming moments, and the kid-friendly ratings, this is NOT for younger (or tender) children, who could be traumatized for years by the treatment these chimps receive. It rates a 6.8/10 from...the Fiend :.
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