Watching this movie was like watching one of those movies that don't know if they are a comedy or a drama but in this case, it's either a thriller or a melodrama, hence the melothriller.
It starts with a family moving to another army base where the dad is going to work on a secret nuclear project. As we watch him doing the big experiment we expect the techno-thriller twist in the style of Michael Chrichton or Stephen King, but instead, the movie turns into a Douglas Sirk melodrama. It goes on as a melodrama where Jessica Lange plays one of her typical roles of a woman on the border of a nervous breakdown. As she finally has her breakdown, the movie becomes soapy with great misunderstandings and bad people pulling the strings to destroy this suddenly great love story. As the last part ensues, the whole melodramatic buildup is dismissed as some B plot in a techno-thriller. So, the movie is neither thrilling nor melodramatic.
It starts with a family moving to another army base where the dad is going to work on a secret nuclear project. As we watch him doing the big experiment we expect the techno-thriller twist in the style of Michael Chrichton or Stephen King, but instead, the movie turns into a Douglas Sirk melodrama. It goes on as a melodrama where Jessica Lange plays one of her typical roles of a woman on the border of a nervous breakdown. As she finally has her breakdown, the movie becomes soapy with great misunderstandings and bad people pulling the strings to destroy this suddenly great love story. As the last part ensues, the whole melodramatic buildup is dismissed as some B plot in a techno-thriller. So, the movie is neither thrilling nor melodramatic.