An interesting, ambitious movie that for me was unfortunately less than the sum of its parts and didn’t quite live up to its vision - and maybe, that's okay! Perhaps what's most important, to paraphrase this movie, "is to ask the right questions".
The movie is subtitled "a fable", and this helped me a bit to hand-wave away the movie's paper-thin characterizations (albeit played by an A-list cast) and shallow world-building. In its best moments, when it is able to…
A lot of fun! The cast (including the great new additions) is game, and the (mostly? - one can hope) practical effects were refreshing. Frenetic and somewhat disconnected to start, but once it gets going, I was happy to get onboard for the ride. All aboard the Soul Train!
I've decided to start posting my reviews along with my ratings, and a fine movie as any other to start with.
Going in I was expecting a tongue-in-cheek, self-aware, fun time at the movies - and this movie decidedly delivered. What I did not expect was a hearftelt meditation on the nature of self, personal identity, and modernity, that manages to be both self-aware and come across as authentic, or at least as honest as possible when filtered through the…
The first twenty minutes of this movie though gets a SOLID five stars.
