(NR) John Travolta’s labor of love finally comes to the big screen in what is being hailed the most controversial movie of the summer. To me it’s plain sci-fi thriller in the year 3000 when a race called the Psychlos turns the Earth into a mining colony. Now, the handfuls of surviving humans are either used as slaves, stripping the mineral resources from the planet for use by the Psychlo race, or hiding out in remote mountain villages, primitive and cut off from the rest of humanity. One of the most powerful figures on this new Earth is Psychlo Chief of Security Terl (JOHN TRAVOLTA), a brilliant and monstrous alien who believes he was destined to conquer galaxies. It’s up to rebel hero, Johnny Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper), who looks like a male Bo Derek in “10, to lead the planet from the giant alien species. The movie also stars Forest Whitaker as Ker. The controversy comes from Travolta being a Scientologist, making a movie based on the 1982 novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the religion’s late founder. I think it’s a stretch of a role for Travolta whose last stretch of a role in “Pulp Fiction” launched him into the biggest comeback of all time. A sequel is already planned for this movie that is said to be the next Star Wars-ish hit. Interesting sidenote:
