Technical Tour de Force

Rating: Null/10 (27 April 1999)

This is an incredibly good movie. Even as sci-fi, the premise is lame, the plot totally implausible, but the film construction flat-out incredible. This is a movie for teaching movie-makers. So tight, it takes a few viewings to really see how tightly woven it is. Not just the film cuts, but the sound, the dialogue. All tightly interwoven. A LOT of effort from the backstage went into this movie. The jump cuts are from sound to image to voice. It may not be art, but the artistic mechanics kick butt. For any technician, this is a must see.