This movie is promoted as a slick, stylish thriller set in the world of interactive 3D porn and anime. All that's true, but what you aren't told is that it also has no real plot as such and pretends to have meaning without really saying anything. It's vapid eye candy dressed up as something intellectual (a premise made more plausible by the presence of a multinational and multilingual cast). I admit it -- I was suckered by the jacket copy and the promo images and I got burned. If you absolutely must see this movie for some reason, like it's required for "Bad Film 101," or a deranged Chloë Sevigny fan has a gun to your head and demands that you view it from beginning to end (a) rent it, do not buy it or even pay rep theater prices, (b) prepare a topic ahead of time that you can meditate upon as soon as your attention for the movie is exhausted (my guess: within 20 minutes, so have a good 109 minutes of meditation material ready).
Am I being too harsh? Maybe a bit, but not much. Is it a matter of personal taste? Maybe to some extent, but I believe it's really more a matter of being disappointed by something that actually SUITS my taste but that fails to deliver.
Am I being too harsh? Maybe a bit, but not much. Is it a matter of personal taste? Maybe to some extent, but I believe it's really more a matter of being disappointed by something that actually SUITS my taste but that fails to deliver.