The Cruiser on top form

Rating: 9/10 (11 May 2006)

Hugely enjoyed this futuristic cop action thriller. The plot has a few slight creaks I suppose (why haven't they changed his security clearance when the whole country is hunting him? yadda yadda) and when I saw it again the bit with the lady in the greenhouse is pretty weird - is she some sort of psychic as well? Good grief though, this is a future romp based on a story by the king of weird, Philip K Dick. His work is always a mad side-on look at the world, and the mental / ethical dramas thrown up by technology and science. What will people say if they film his Ubik (in the future, God shows up) or The Man in the High Castle (one of the best books ever - years after the Japs and Nazis win WW2 a German assassin comes to occupied America to hunt the author of a samizdat book about what would have happened if the Allies won...) Anyway, great visuals, great direction, great plot, loads of surprises and twists, the Cruiser unstoppable as always.