Where are AJ and Joshua when you need them??? I have a feeling they will like and understand this picture.
The director, Richard Linklater, used a new process with this film--interloping rotoscoping--basically artists drawing over live action performances--while it was interesting at points (the scramble suit scenes) the process really didn't bring anything to the movie itself.
It is 7 years in the future and the drug wars are still going on only with a new drug called substance D. Keanu Reeves is a undercover cop--I didn't quite understand whether he got hooked on the drug but his brain was going downhill.
I am not familiar with the sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick and I must admit the dedication at the end to a myriad of people totally confused me--are they real people? What caused their current situation?
I don't care how much you 'cover' Robert Downey, Jr and/or Woody Harrelson--they are such outsized personalities and good actors that they shine through the rotoscoping. By the same token whatever you do to Wionna Ryder and Keanu Reeves they come through bland.
While the 'look' of the picture is certainly different the story really isn't and that's why I go to the movies--for the story--it wasn't good, wasn't bad, just a got excuse to sit in an air conditioned theatre, with popcorn and a soda, on a hot afternoon.
So far of the last 4 pictures I have seen I really can't/won't recommend any of them. :o(
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