Since "TOTAL RECALL" and "MATRIX", we can easily predict the "surprises" ("Wow ? Was it real or not ?") of movies talking about "virtual reality".
<SPOILERS> As soon as I saw the little two-head monsters at the gas station, I knew that all the story was a dream. And like it has been said : "Because the movie takes place in a game, we don't really care about what's going on.". I agree. Even the last "surprise" was predictable.
The only unpredictable thing is "Cronenberg style". Bad taste, ugly eroticism, and so on. At each seconds I asked to myself : "what hell Cronenberg will find to surprise us ?". I was not disappointed on that.
But I was in hope of a better story. In that movie, "virtual reality" is again (one more time) a Doomlike arcade game ("bang bang you're dead !"). I'm waiting for a movie which would talk us about "virtual reality" without gunfights (more like "BRAINSTORM" by Trumbull for instance).
In two words : Too classical story, but unusual and great directing. Well, it's not bad. 7/10.
<SPOILERS> As soon as I saw the little two-head monsters at the gas station, I knew that all the story was a dream. And like it has been said : "Because the movie takes place in a game, we don't really care about what's going on.". I agree. Even the last "surprise" was predictable.
The only unpredictable thing is "Cronenberg style". Bad taste, ugly eroticism, and so on. At each seconds I asked to myself : "what hell Cronenberg will find to surprise us ?". I was not disappointed on that.
But I was in hope of a better story. In that movie, "virtual reality" is again (one more time) a Doomlike arcade game ("bang bang you're dead !"). I'm waiting for a movie which would talk us about "virtual reality" without gunfights (more like "BRAINSTORM" by Trumbull for instance).
In two words : Too classical story, but unusual and great directing. Well, it's not bad. 7/10.