Enemy Mine tells the story about a man ( Dennis Quaid) who gets stranded on a distant planet during a battle that cost the life of one of his men. He's not from the planet he is on, and he is in one mode, and one mode only: survival. On the planet with him, he discovers one of the enemies that he was fighting also stranded on the planet with him. The enemy also is not from this planet, and is also in survival mode. With this being the only thing in common, and so little that would ever separate the deep hatred they feel for one another, these two will have to learn to put their differences aside, and up caring for one another, for survival purposes, in ways they never would have imagined possible. Dennis looks like a man, however, the enemy is an alien, and lacks any human characteristics. So much so, that on the enemies planet, the male aliens can get pregnant. The story takes a drastic turn, when he ends up caring for a child after the alien passes away. Being very protective over the alien child, he finds that his means of survival on this planet has gone from being his top priority, to the least of his worries, as a chain of events trigger everything but good things from happening, as the child becomes a target for some uninvited guests. Enemy Mine has a fantastic, compelling, and emotionally moving story line, and the ending will leave you speechless for years to come.

I'm not a huge fan of this film, and I'll try and be as objective as possible here. I think it's an okay sort of run-in-the-mill movie that was striving for more, and probably hit a few chords with die-hard "watch anything" science fiction fanatics.It's reasonably shot, but has that 1980's Hollywood gloss to it that's somewhat reminiscent of the look for Spielberg's films; lots of light and colors. Which I think is okay, but for some reason the film doesn't hit me as being too interesting. It's interesting enough for what it is, but it's not a film I have in my collection.Quaid and Gosset make for an interesting duo, but Star Wars this movie isn't. The thing that strikes me about this movies is that Gosset isn't alien enough, and how the two characters develop strikes me as being Hollywood being Hollywood. Two different species probably wouldn't get along so well, much less be able to communicate so easily.The other thing is that the film has a very studio look to it. A few location shots out in the desert someplace would have helped this film a great deal, as well as perhaps tweaking the script some. That is to say the premise is interesting enough, but I don't think the film went far enough to make the social rift between two species alien to one another more apparent. I could geek out on it, but I'll refrain.All in all it's okay for what it is, but I think there's a better scifi film to be made.Take that for what it's worth.

This movie was made in 1985 by a once great director but it looks like made in 1965 by some cretinous dilettante. Everything just feels badly made up and carried out. The set-design is awful, the sfx are poor, the script is clumsy, implausible and offers no believable development of characters, and the musical score is probably one of the worst ever made! The only thing that is amazing is the acting of L. Gossett Jr. which even works through the massive latex mask.The rest is just... oh, forget about it. It is just unbelievable that those who made it did not die of embarrassment, like I would do.

Not worth watching, it's really a very poor rehash of a much better film (Hell in The Pacific), two intergalactic enemy's meet and become bosom buddies after being stranded on some remote God forsaken planet, (which just so happens to have oxygen and water). True to form of similar propaganda Hollywod war movies, the earthling prisoner displays the arrogant superiority bravado, threatening his captor from a no-win position. The script is very poorly written, the acting (if you can call it that) very poor and the story line is ever so boringly predictable. The alien make-up (mask) is ridiculous, but it's intelligence and personality are worthy of praise and perhaps a reflection of what Christianity is really all about. It learns English very fast, including a lot of abstract words, and it displays ab superior humanitarian/Christian attitude than the selfish ego-centric aggressive earthling(s). It's a story of a lot of the movies cliché's strung together: white vs black, aggression vs compassion, homo- vs hetero-sexuality, war and peace, co-operation vs defiance, the individual vs authority, man against nature and man/alien, survival, co- operation and honor. All this was done much much better in it's precursor, Hell in The Pacific.