Brendan Fraser's 10 Greatest Performances

Blast From the Past is yet another film that cast Fraser in the role of a man-out-of-time, this time playing a child who was locked inside a nuclear fallout bunker in the sixties and left there for thirty years due to the fact that his mother and father thought that the country has been bombed. He spends those three decades being raised exclusively on the media and culture of the sixties by his parents, only to emerge into an entirely different world once the bunker opens in 1997.

Blast From the Past really deserves to be a better film. It has great ideas and starts out so strong and you can see exactly what director/writer/producer Hugh Wilson was going for here but it feels like its been shredded in the edit.

Having said all of that, even though the edit regularly seems to be actively letting his performance down by cutting shots short or adding unnecessarily distracting music over the top, Fraser delivers a remarkable performance here.

While the film largely plays the cultural disparity between the sixties and the nineties for broad comedy, Fraser internalizes it and makes it the driving notion of his entire performance. It's a stunningly great choice that deserves a better film around it.