You'll love it or hate it, there's no in between

Rating: Null/10 (3 February 2004)

I loved it. I have seen it about 10 times. The sheer random absurdity and the wacked way that the characters deal with the bizarre situations they find themselves in really appealed to my sense of the bizarre. The story is not exactly War and Peace, but it really doesn't need to be. It's more about the amazing visual spectacle, and the really weird people, and watching veteran scene stealer Gary Oldman have a ball than anything else. Bruce Willis does quite a good job in a silly hero spot, and the giant metal turkeys do a good job too, in their underwritten but crucial roles. It's really the throwaway moments that are the best in this. I think one of my favorite moments is the juiced thief with a picture of the hallway on his head breaking into a bizarre dance, but one cannot discount the cockroach with the camera, the frozen military personnel (Hail, Replicant!), and the little elephant animal thingy. I never cease to be amused by Chris Tucker's amazing Ruuuuuuby Rhod! And the opera diva! And those weird and none-to-bright aliens with the big ears! And the deaf pop star! Explosions! A race to save the world! And true love! Who could ask for anything more? I find the whole thing to be compulsively watchable.