It's alright, but not for me!

Finally got it off my ‘to watch’ list and I’m perplexed, was it the subject matter that didn’t appeal to me, or was it just the movie as a whole. Have to say 50/50 at this point. I’m glad I watched it for Rory Cochrane’s performance alone as Charles Freck, which was both wonderful and surprising.

I’m annoyed at the predictability of the movie as a whole - the set-up for the surprise discovery and conclusion were both right there at the start. The animation/rotoscope wasn’t bad when it was just posterised live footage, but when mixed media was used, perspectives went array and I began feeling nauseous.

I like to see humanity evolve or some personal development at least. In the movie Blade Runner we were left pondering the humanity of the replicants, and even questioning if Rick Deckard wasn’t one himself. This movie, which is based on another Philip K Dick story, just shows society declining into a surveillance heavy police state, whilst the populace declines into a drug-induced stupor.

Glad I now know what its about, but not a movie I would ever recommend or return to myself.


6/10