Boring and interesting, if that's possible

Rating: Null/10 (23 May 2003)

An ambitious film that takes four years to make and with so many different elements will inevitably suffer a certain disjointedness.
What saves this film and it's predecessor, which I was not too enamoured of, is it's interesting plot. Throughout history, totalitarian states have grappled with the problem of controlling it's slaves and their rebellions. This film dares to devote a lot of screen time in an almost academic way to the complex problems an advanced technological machine culture would have dealing with it's slave labour, giving a strange poignancy to the helplessness of the humans crushed by these cold machinations. The result is a boring, weird and brilliant film. I am certainly intrigued as to how the story will be concluded, hopefully in an original way and not a banal shoot-em-up. we shall see.