3 sci-fi movies on Paramount+ you need to watch in October

Paramount+ doesn’t have the movie library that its competitors do, but it has bolstered its lineup with the premium Paramount+ with Showtime tier. We think it’s unfair when the best premium movies are blocked from the lower tiers. That’s why our picks for three sci-fi movies on Paramount+ that you have to see are available on all levels.

This month, our picks include John Woo’s best American film, an Oscar-nominated sci-fi parable and the first collaboration between Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg.

Face/Off (1998)

for the most part, encounter It plays like a typical action thriller, which is why people forget that the premise itself makes it a science fiction film. FBI Agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) has a grudge against a dangerous criminal, Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), who is credited with a failed assassination attempt on Archer that killed his son. During their next confrontation, Archer is victorious and Troy is left in a coma… but not before it is revealed that a bomb is hidden in the city.

To locate the bomb before it kills innocent people, Archer reluctantly undergoes an experimental procedure that literally implants Troy’s face onto his body. And just when it seems the plan is working, the real Troy comes out of his coma and forces the doctor to implant Archer’s face onto his body. Troy kills anyone who knows the truth, and leaves Archer on the run with everyone, including his family, believing he is the real Troy.

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District 9 (2009)

Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 It’s so great that it’s kind of hindered Blomkamp’s career because no matter what he’s done he hasn’t been able to recapture that success. (And that includes his latest film grand tourism.) Even the Academy Awards recognized District 9 With a nomination for Best Film of 2009. Blomkamp draws on the recent history of his native South Africa to present a vision of an alternative world, where foreign refugees face apartheid-era discrimination and squalor.

Christopher Johnson (Jason Cope), one of the alien Prawns stranded on Earth, secretly plots to gain access to the ship that brought them to our world. When a low-level human bureaucrat, Vicks van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley), is exposed to Christopher’s alien fuel, he begins to transform into a shrimp. Wikus’s only hope of maintaining his humanity is to help Christopher’s plan succeed and escape the factions on Earth who want them both dead.

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Minority Report (2003)

By Hollywood again and again Philip K. The reason I return to Dick’s stories and novels is that he had a talent for big sci-fi ideas that translate well to film. in the matter of minority ReportThis adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg examined Dick’s vision of a future where the police’s Precrime Division can predict deadly crimes so accurately that murder is practically a thing of the past. In theory, the prescient trio running Precrime are never wrong. But Precrime Chief John Anderton (Tom Cruise, in one of his best action film appearances) holds out hope that the Precogs were wrong when they predicted he would kill Leo Crow (Mike Binder), a man he’s never met Are.

There’s no appeal in precrime, and suddenly Anderton’s own officers are hunting him. To escape and prove his innocence, Anderton must dive into the criminal underworld and decide who he can trust before fate places him in the same room as Leo Crowe at the time of Leo’s death.

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