If you liek being baffled, you'll love this! Its a very difficult to describe but basically, Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a software engineer who is being hunted for designing the ultimate game which is played by being attached to a semi biological gamepod machine. Its typically David Coronenberg in that theres a lot of things left unsaid that you can mull over in your mind. It has a disturbing background. If you like feeling uneasy while you watch a film, this'll be up your street. All the actors do a really good job but at the end, you're left wondering what the hell happened.
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Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Willow Smith, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson, Alice Braga
Advantages: An intriguing plot effectively and intelligently executed; valid and relevant discussion of current ethical issues related to technology; visually striking and with good cast performances. Disadvantages: Will not reward a viewer who is impatient or in need of a very linear narrative; open to charges of repetition of ‘Videodrome’; are the faults a deliberate part of the simulation or just the result of bad filming?
B.Bligh 08.07.2001 ·
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