A strange movie to pin down this one. From one angle it's a brilliant piece of speculative sci-fi, disturbing and thought-provoking, but there's enough humour running throughout that you could class it as a comedy. As a movie about drugs it nails that intangible trip-logic perfectly to often hilarious effect, while not shying away from the paranoia and psychosis that can also play a part. And then there's the graphic novel-esquire visual style, which gives the movie a dreamy surreal quality and also ensures it doesn't look quite like anything else out there.
The performances are all great (Downey Junior and Rory Cochrane are hysterical), with even Keanu "Action Plank" Reeves acquitting himself nicely, while of all the K.Dick adaptations this rings truest to his writing style.
A modern classic that can only improve on subsequent viewings.
The performances are all great (Downey Junior and Rory Cochrane are hysterical), with even Keanu "Action Plank" Reeves acquitting himself nicely, while of all the K.Dick adaptations this rings truest to his writing style.
A modern classic that can only improve on subsequent viewings.