I am a big fan of Philip K Dick, so I was really looking froward to this film. However, it just didn't work. I'll walk you though how this movie failed in a big way.
1. The Script. Now I know this movie had excellent source material, but when lines from your movies are:
"Do you know where the bathroom is?"
"What?"
"It's in the house"
AND
"I like air."
It makes me want to scream. Truly it sounded like a word processing program vomited out the script and the director just stuck to it.
2. The new animation method used.
The director decided to use a brand new method to tell this story. He shot the film with live actors, and then animated on top of them. Sounds cool right? Sounds innovative? No. It didn't work. All it did was make it difficult to concentrate the action. Everything kept moving even when it should have been still, so it was very similar to being on a boat.
3. Keanu Reeves
I'm not saying anything else.
4. The "scramble" suit.
With out giving too much away the scramble suit its a fairly effective plot device. It's used to protect undercover cops from getting their cover blown by constantly shifting their faces. A great concept in print, but a horrible one in practice. No only do I have to hear a voice that sounds like it came out of one of those voice altering toys, but then I'm forced to watch a shifting blur of people.
1. The Script. Now I know this movie had excellent source material, but when lines from your movies are:
"Do you know where the bathroom is?"
"What?"
"It's in the house"
AND
"I like air."
It makes me want to scream. Truly it sounded like a word processing program vomited out the script and the director just stuck to it.
2. The new animation method used.
The director decided to use a brand new method to tell this story. He shot the film with live actors, and then animated on top of them. Sounds cool right? Sounds innovative? No. It didn't work. All it did was make it difficult to concentrate the action. Everything kept moving even when it should have been still, so it was very similar to being on a boat.
3. Keanu Reeves
I'm not saying anything else.
4. The "scramble" suit.
With out giving too much away the scramble suit its a fairly effective plot device. It's used to protect undercover cops from getting their cover blown by constantly shifting their faces. A great concept in print, but a horrible one in practice. No only do I have to hear a voice that sounds like it came out of one of those voice altering toys, but then I'm forced to watch a shifting blur of people.