Secretly intellectual entertainment

Rating: 7/10 (13 March 2006)

Proyas has become one of the most interesting and intellectual movie directors working today. And he's young also. His first, "Crow", was quite simple romantic story. "Dark City" and "I, Robot" are very serious and deep, and on top of that, very entertaining.
However Proyas' is not a very deep actor-director. His characters are straight from some comic books, kind of hollow and too simple. But that fits to the package, it doesn't disturb. It's his style. Someone else might do these stories in totally different style. But Proyas masters his own style perfectly.
Surely this must be "Big Willie" Smith's best acting role. Not Proyas' best, but very good anyway. There are very interesting themes in the movie: How other people don't (want to) believe somebody who knows something (maybe "too much" of something), and tries to warn others. And in the end, when the truth comes out, the guy was of course right. And conspiracies... Not that this is the only movie handling these themes, but it's one of the best.