Born too late to be an uptight Babylonian priest, born too soon to explore the stars, born just in time to be mentally ill and die in the climate apocalypse


Cypher Review

★★★½

Watched Jul 14, 2024

What a delightfully weird movie. A dash of Philip K. Dick, high-concept y2k sci-fi, and a handful of other ideas that must have been rattling around in the director's brain. It has a handful of shortcomings (their bumbling attempts at noir influence, MacGuffin-dense plot, and the painfully corny third act in particular) but it has that gonzo charm that only mid-budget sci-fi can have. Add another zero onto the budget and they never would have gotten away with "bulletproof CGI helicopter that looks like a space ship."

If there are no defenders of terrible 2000s CGI, I am dead.


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