Technofreak chaos

Rating: 4/10 (11 July 2002)

Superficially the movie is very well made, the story is intriguing and fluently presented so it makes good entertainment but... here comes the but...
If you start to analyze more deeply what you have, some noteworthy issues arise. The setup of the story takes quite a bit of time in the beginning of the movie, around 1 hour or so. This partly is also the reason why the running time of the movie is on the long side.
The environment where the movie is set tries to present a prediction on how urban living in the future would look like. Strong contrasts can be seen, some scenes are very much on the scifi side where as other scenes are very much on "nothing has changed" side. On top of that each of the main characters in the movie are presented with strong personalities which creates some interesting scenes.
So all in all it is many things put into one package, maybe too many things in one package... at times it is hard to see what is the main focus: the story, the techno show or maybe the character personality study. Go see it and try to make sense out of it beyond the obvious story.