The Future Is The Past

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2002)

The trailers looked promising, and the first part was fascinating, mainly for the futurist concepts. While some of the ideas were sci-fi rote standards (vertical highways, optic scans, personalised advertising) they had a crispness and naturalness to them that could have been hard to catch. I suppose it helps that I already feel spamed everywhere I go. The concept of a system of crime prevention had great potential too, but things took a sharp slide and kept going worse. What should have been a captivating look at the future and tech and humanity and fate and free will, instead went to picking a thread-worn plotline from the list of standby yawners. If you have seen a movie or read a book of any kind of your life, there is no way you will be surprised by anything that happens by at least the last two-thirds of the movie, where it has switched fully into a miserable attempt at thriller-mode. I don't even have to mention the numb plot points specifically (which I won't, because it would too painful). There's everything here but the long lost twins, no wait, there's sorta that too. At best, it all feels like filler, bland uninspired filler. Maybe worse, there is no way you will care; about the chars, ending, or anything but wishing you had that time back to spend over. It was a neat idea, completely destroyed and beaten unconscious by a huge lack of ideas. Sheesh, if you don't have something new or different to add, shut up and let someone else talk. The plethora of crap out there is embarrassing. Ps.- To summarise: Don't even watch this one for free.