tentatively: an SF classic

Rating: 9/10 (14 April 1999)

This film has planted a fever in my brain - was there a subliminal message throbbing out of the screen telling us 'you must see this again'? I feel like an invisible thread is luring me back to the cinema to immerse myself again in this glorious fiction. Even though its premise is dystopic, the action/fight/gravity defying sequences are truly exhilarating and may make the unhinged among us think for a brief moment that maybe they can fly too.
I can't tell you how strange it was to watch the familiar buildings and streets of Sydney (my home city) constructed as part of a computer generated illusion, and then to drive past many of the filming locations on the way home. Disconcertingly dreamlike to say the least! Go see it - I promise that it will show you things you've never seen or maybe never dreamt before.