Clever sci-fi comedy that works on many levels

Rating: 8/10 (30 November 2004)

I liked this film very much, which made how much some other people hated it surprising. Those people probably didn't understand many key elements in the movie. Part of the humor does require thought, which could be a turn off for people who don't like to think. The tie ins of the history of UFO's in US culture, the MIB, the 1964 World's fair, illegal aliens, NYC cab drivers, and particularly having the tabloids serve as the hot sheets and models of investigative journalism were hilarious. People who take those tabloids seriously might be the ones offended by this movie. The cover stories used after neuralyzing people sounded like garbled versions of the explanations given in the TV series "Project UFO" which dealt with the USAF's "Project Blue Book". K's indifference to the point of suffering from the relentless monotony of it all, taking everything in stride as an every day event, and casually, lazily, and callously treating his neuralyzed victims struck me as funny, though admittedly somewhat sadistic.