Matrix meets Lawnmower Man 2

Rating: 3/10 (29 December 2002)

It is sad to see that it's possible to mess up a good novelette by Philip K. Dick in this way. The massive over-use of special effects and new "inventions" (that never was in the original) for the sole purpose of impressing techno-savvy teenagers strongly detracts from the movie itself, to the point that it's no longer even remotely believable. Compared to a movie like Blade Runner (also based on a Philip K. Dick story), this is pure drivel, massacred completely. There's only one good reason to see this movie, and that's if you WANT to see eye-candy. However, in ten years time when the SFX used in this movie has become obsolete, it won't even be worth seeing it for that. So watch it while it's hot. Others should buy one of the books with the original story, and enjoy the highly psychological and political message that draws the reader in. In the movie, all this is drowned in a techno-orgy without reason, meaning or plausibility.