Future Noir

Rating: 9/10 (28 May 2006)

When I see pages upon pages of comments I feel I should refrain from adding anything (what more can possibly be said?) But this film is probably the only modern noir film that keeps to the true spirit of the original "film noir" genre; you could take away most of the future-dystopia setting and it would still be a respectable gumshoe mystery thriller. Weirdly darker than the original noir feel, and yet somehow uplifting at the end too. Oddly, the original noir films were shot with very minimal settings; they made the most of simple city scenes and sets, and yet here the city has been dolled-up like some compu-TV-robot-whore, and it still works. The scenery is like another character in the film, similar to "nature" being a character in some wilderness films.