fun, fun, fun...

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2003)

Possible Spoilers, but nothing major ********************* This is my favorite movie of all time. Sure the plot's been done before (good vs. evil. The rest I cannot give away)....but it's never been done like this! The over-the-top acting on all accounts makes this film a riot(Willis, Jovovich, Tucker, Oldman, and Holm, especially). The dialogue is witty and fantastically silly, but so well delivered. I'd be surprised if you didn't come out of this film with several good one-liners(ex:"cheekan...good"). The action sequences are cleverly mixed with electronic and middle eastern style music pieces that beg to be danced to. You have to be made of stone not to love the Diva's performance, which ultimately won me over on the film. There are several sequences that make prodigious use of seamless parallel cuts(also very funny). And if all this wasn't enough, there are the sets. They're like, Blade Runner and the amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat! It's a mix of old and new(cars look quite 20's, and I'm sure you notice a particular modern day fast food franchise), not to mention the costumes, which combine the best of scifi imagination with some kind of mind-altering drug. If you're looking for an intellectual commentary on future society, you're in the wrong place; but, if you just wanna laugh and have fun and give your eyes a stylist SFX treat, then strap yourself in for a ride...