30 minutes in excess

Rating: 8/10 (4 October 2002)

The PKD short story and the film kept only the concept and name in common. There is few in the film from the "book", but this is not my regret. Steven Spielberg did it again. A quite good film with 30 minutes in excess, have become a mediocre one. All the world around the film make it very credible, the absolutely real ads like the Kellogs, the Nokia screen-phone, the personalized publicity, the watches, the 3D image home projector, the virtual screen manipulation, and so on... (well, except the cars and traffic, that's are quite stupid). Personally I don't like Mr Cruise as actor, but even in this case was not a real bad one (5 over 10). My main dissapointment are the last 30 minutes. Why Spielberg needs to explain everything, why he needs to finish all threads, and specially WHY HE ALWAYS NEED A HAPPY END.