worst film I ever watched in a long time. A waste of time.
Incredibly refreshing. Something different for a change.
It's an interesting movie with an unique aesthetic. Watch it if you like absurd.
Definitely a very odd movie. Very French. I enjoyed it, but I only recommend it to those who have an appetite for the absurd.
Believe me, nope. A movie too easy.
I felt the finale was a bit anticlimactic, and it drags a little in the middle, (I'd say 10 minutes edited out in total from different scenes throughout would have tightened the pacing just the right amount) but I found the film refreshingly different, and I was laughing early and often, as intended. It's still French Sci-fi, with its bizarrely manic-quriky-weird trademarks, but it's Science Fiction in the way that most "sci-fi" cinema isn't, in that it's focused on the speculative and satirical aspect over the "action film with science fiction window dressing" standard, of most any Hollywood sci-fi film, or something that Luc Besson would do (okay, Valerian actually had a better premise than The Fifth Element, but it had none of its charm or casting perfection, whereas Fifth is a classic despite its ridiculously stupid Sci-Fi dialogue and plot. Lucy was an insult to... well, everyone.)
However, it's not lacking in visual flair. Alice's antique robots were all unique and believable (well, maybe Monique was more of a joke gimmick that didn't always work well) and the Yonyx designs, while clearly reminiscent of Robo-Cop (obviously a very intentional evocation), manage to actually outdo the original. And the electrocution, etc. special fx actually had me glued to the screen.
It's mostly satirical in how it approaches clichés of human behavior, relationships, and modern corporate technoculture, but the part later in the film between François and her sex bot was shockingly sincere and touching. It's actually got a lot of quotable lines, and screen grabs that would be prime reaction meme bait.
SINCERITY 64%
SEXUAL URGE 80%
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ERECTION 100%
I also appreciated the menacing and manic murder glare and unsettlingly large-toothed grin of the Yonyx robocops. Disturbingly fitting, and I think it should be the go-to template for whatever robo-shit death machines Boston Dynamics and Raytheon end up creating to scorch us meatbags into submission in the coming decades. If we're going to make "Down in the Park" into reality, then at least give them a face that we can aim for.
Another robot revolution. The bad guys looks a lot like Robocop.
This was a interesting one. It was Fun to watch. It was Very Bright and Colorful.
Well this one was definitely badly made but it hooked me still and did have some hidden humour in it and most of all the film had the what the fuck vibe to it.
We enjoyed this movie pretty well!
Wow, this is awful. It could have been interesting, but the characters just suck and the futuristic setting is just bad. I'm sure it was intended to be a throwback to the '50s, but it was done poorly. Lots of interesting decisions for the film, but bad implementation.
I just couldn't watch it and had tons shut it off.
We need more unique and quirky films like this one. Shades of Snowpiercer. A glimpse into the World or Tomorrow we were all promised.
Like the beginning of the lockdown: cute, but quickly becomes predictable and tedious.
This COVID movie about a group of people confined to their residence by robots benefits from an amazing cast and a high production value but the imagination that went into the world building was cruelly lacking in the satire, humor and storyline.
What a childish and gaudy movie. This came as a recommendation from The Verge as one of the best ones from 2022. Unfortunately, I can not share that sentiment.
The AI taking over and miraculously being thwarted is a trope used far too often recently. Things like Black Mirror have done good work at it too. So when I heard someone who made Amelie is directing this I was impressed. It turned out a too brightly coloured and on numerous occasions ill-acted movie.
There is a template futuristic time period where the human race is free of kitchen duties. I wonder what people do except for becoming the humans from the movie Wall-e, but that is for a separate post. There is some skynet event unfolding outside when for some inexplicable reason, they are imprisoned in their own home.
There is a lot of quirk with very little substance. The acting is lame, probably by design. I could not surmise the reasons for that. At the end of it all, you really don't empathise with anyone, and neither are you rooting for anyone in the film.
This is a thoroughly non-recommendable film.
Absurd, unhinged, weird. This film may best be watched while stoned out of your gourd. For those unaddled by chemical means, this might be slightly too much. 4/10 sober.
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STAY. AWAY. FROM. THIS. STEAMING. PILE. OF. CRAP. -10/10