In this futuristic movie, the gender roles are relegated to the Neanderthal days. Women are either victims, who need to be saved by the hunky male lead, or are sex toys, who service said hunky male lead, or also service each other. It's like someone decided to stick a "porn" film in the middle of a "sci-fi" film. Now I can appreciate both, but mixing the two distracts from the more interesting ideas of the latter. The most annoying part however; is that the protagonist spends the whole movie hunting down a murdering female, who in the end turns out to just be another "damsel in distress", that he is obligated to save from the real killer, who of course is a male. You can see the "lovey-dovey" ending coming from the middle of the film. It's a like Disney film with a little "porn" thrown in. By the way, the "sci-fi" idea is quite interesting, but unfortunately gets buried in romantic cliche.
... View MoreI would have rated the movie higher but for the ending - the mysterious statement at the end was jibberish to me and ruined an otherwise decent movie. Oh, well...
... View MoreCharacters are two dimensional, but not even in a stylish way. Predictable men fight over being the saviour of a woman. The women in the film are just objectified.
... View MoreImagine a super computer. No not like that, but the theoretical one computer powerful enough that it connects everything. Oh, this includes each person as everyone is in the database and everyone is like a node with video of everything we experience. The computer can show anyone anything including the names of any passersby or even the content of a street vendor's knackwurst, Some have higher access as is common in analytics of course, but something strange is happening as those policing things are started to experience hacks in their files. This means simply some people won't show up and some people's files won't show what happened at a crucial moment in the commission of a murder. Is the AI pushing back or just a craftier computer hacker that is also an elevated criminal? Sounds promising, however get ready for a droll and dark ride. I said droll because it's tension building without much color or real emotion. The movie feels just as artificial as the files that fool the police, or whatever division of cyber law enforcement this is suppose to be. Why I kept watching was not exactly rewarding in the end. I felt as depressed as the sepia toned gray cinematography. Anon made me yearn for a more involving whodunit with some emotional color. If the ultimate connected society is as depressing as this flic then I even see our car's ECU's as sucking the life out of driving. For hard core Sci-Fans who appreciate a slow ride with a slower ending.
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