This film is PERFECT ! ! !

Rating: 10/10 (21 July 1999)

This one got everything: an awesome cast, good director's to handle the film and a plot that really makes you wonder of what's going on in the film (and in this world;-)). When I first saw the trailer, I thought "Oh, once again one of these popcorn-boom-boom-actioneers". I was wrong. All pictures from the trailer appeared within the last 20-30 mins; the "rest" of the movie was pretty quite instead. And that is exactly what this movie makes so good: It is not the typical "Hero-saves-world"-stuff; it is the story, the plot that catches you and takes you deeper and deeper into this topic that our reality might be a perfect illusion. When I attended school we had the issue of "What is considered to be real" in our philosophy-lessons and it really sucked. This movie offers a way to follow the ideas it shows.
So on the one hand you have a disturbing and scaring plot and on the other hand you have techniques of making films that offer you a view into the next millenium. I have never seen so beautiful pictures, none have I seen so cool special fx (Bullet Time) or such a perfect green-screen keying. There are not many movies that I've seen twice; this one I saw five times (until now)...