So much of the is movie made no sense. For one thing, the tapes of peoples minds, which would always be first person, were often third person. Second, what the military was planning on doing with the process was never explained. I guess Michael wanted to experience death and come back because he would be the pioneer of that, but ... for me the recording of what death is like just seemed silly. Natalie Wood actually drowned during the making of the movie and some of her scenes were shot with a stand in and others cobbled together from earlier out-takes. Walken never works for me when he's playing a sane character — his acting is so strange he should stick to the insane.