Console best movie i've ever seen.

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

gavin6942 Jessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.Lange won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Actress, along with the Golden Globe Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award. So it seems appropriate to address her role, which is sort of polarizing.Typically a main character has to be likable for a film to work, and it is hard for Lange to be likable -- she is morally loose, embarrasses her husband and seems to have a general disregard for her family and children. As the film progresses, she makes an effort to redeem herself, but will it be enough? Tommy Lee Jones is also good, playing Lange's supporting character. He goes through a range of emotions, which is interesting... though the scene that would usually be called Oscar-worthy is just sort of sad and disappointing. (I can't say what it is because it would ruin things, but those who have seen the film will know.)

moonspinner55 "Blue Sky" might have made for a great night of television had it premiered on HBO or Showtime as a cable-film. With somewhat reduced expectations coupled with the intimacy of watching the movie on the small screen, one might be inclined to forgive the film for its lack of scope. Set in Alabama in the mid-1950s, Jessica Lange plays an Army Engineer's wife and the mother of two young girls who is tired of being dragged from one military home to the next. She harbors a dangerous, possibly manic-depressive side, and makes life difficult for everybody--leaving a trail of gossip and bad blood behind her. Tommy Lee Jones is her patient, loving husband, and Powers Boothe is Jones' newest Commanding Officer who sees only Lange's sexy externals and desires her. All three performances are very good (with Lange winning the Best Actress Oscar, possibly due to a slow year for women in film), however the picture takes a wrong turn in its third act and finishes limply. Wolfish Boothe becomes a deceitful villain (as if being a cheating husband wasn't quite enough), while Lange's volatile Carly is sent out on a limb to save her husband from the clutches of the ignorant, power-hungry government. Had the script stayed true to the character conflicts (which would have matched the film's modest budget), this may have been an effective little soaper. But there are too many ambitious ideas cranked out in the final stages, and the editing darts around trying to round off scenes which are squashy and dramatically unfulfilled. It isn't the fault of the actors; the movie becomes so hectic in its plotting that the puny returns we do get (and the overall lack of vision) are not enough to satisfy. "Blue Sky" bites off more than it can possibly chew. **1/2 from ****

dminkster The problem comes from the fact that I (and my wife) found it hard to watch Lang's performance and feel much, if any sympathy for her. Yeah, sure, she's bi-polar, but so what? She needs to be taking her meds, although being married to enabler Tommy Lee, who has seemingly never asked himself (or her). 'what the heck are you doin' and why?' has added to the problem. The film takes it's time setting up the crisis, then solves it easily and quickly. But, as they all ride off into the sunset, laughing, you have to ask yourself, 'when is this going to happen again?' And, when it does, what will happen then? No reason to suspect things will be any better, or any different. Which is also fine, but then, why are they laughing? Sorry, for me, it simply doesn't generate any sympathy or empathy for the lead characters. It may be good acting, but the director needed to take a hard look at the lack of empathy created and do something about it.

lasttimeisaw This movie proves one important thing, a wonderful performance can save the whole movie. And Jessica Lange won her second Oscar by this film.I think the plot is fine, it could be made better, but if consider it's Tony Richardson's last film, maybe we cannot be too picky. A desperate wife had an affair with his officer husband's military colleague, after her husband was framed o be responsible for a nuclear experiment failure by the colleague, and sent to a mental hospital. She finally realized what was most important in her life and she managed to rescue her husband from the wrong accusation.Jessica acted a beautiful married woman whose husband was a military officer, they had to move from here to there. Their life is unstable because Jessica had become tired of this kind of living, and she could not let her life end like other officers' wives', spiritless, boring and charmless. She released her own enchantment, became outstanding among others, caused a love affair with a man, but eventually she woke up when she would lose her husband forever.The relationship between husband and wife is the main core of this film, and thanks to Jessica's incredible performance, the change of her character is so convincing and touching in some level, although the rescue part was too hasty and questionable.Jessica is definitely the only star of this film, so adorable and beautiful at that age. Tommy Lee Jones and Powers Boothe are just okay. I think this film can be re-maked but I do have no idea which actress can make it better!