Lost In Illusions

Rating: 3/10 (19 June 2011)

I had an open mind when I started watching this movie!
It starts out brilliantly like slow motion music video to a remake of Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams" They captured all elements that had to be there and i thought... "wow that is gonna be a great movie"
Well turns out I was horribly wrong! It was supposed to be a spectacle of special effects and a clever story but it was not! The story wasn't clever, it was pretentious and nothing else! They were trying to confuse the audience by multiple realities and in the end even who the leading person in the story is! The entire story could be told in 4 lines! They filled the time with completely unrelated fighting scenes that has been packed with goofs and sometimes bad CGI (CGI Breath in the first fighting scene, door is suddenly open during the zombie Nazi fight, Babydolls Hair grew back black in 2 scenes while in all others she was completely blond, Stab wound of the "pimp" has magically dislocated)
I said unrelated fighting scenes because she was escaping into another alternate reality! People might want to read metaphors into all that nonsense but there haven't been many metaphors! It was a bunch of mini plots randomly inserted into the mini plot. The mediocre fighting scenes mostly been in super slow motion and has been seen a million times before! I could of coped with the fact that she escapes into this reality where she is a super chic in god mode but that she had to bring her pointless friends into it made it even worse! In order to get excited about a character you need to get warm with them first! The Director didn't let us get warm he sent them straight into battle which was pointless! One might find the brilliance of teamwork in these scenes but it wasn't because all of them died, except of one, the one we ALL liked least and it turns out she was who the story was all about and BabyDoll was nothing but her Guardian Angel!
You achieve confusion in the audience when you keep them on board but it became predictable at least after the 2nd fighting scene, all the confusion in the end is supposed to make people put the pieces together but you will only do that if you are still interested which I was not!
Except for the first 3 minutes and the Soundtrack there was not much to enjoy about this movie! Probably if it was 3 hours longer they could of told the story better but in this version this is one of the worst movie in 2011 so far! 2 Stars for the opening scene and 1 star for the sound track! 3 Stars is generous my friends!