Can movie critics be anymore pretentious?

Rating: 5/10 (19 February 2020)

Since both Spanish and English version are almost scene-by-scene copies I will be reviewing them as the same movie.
The movie starts as a drama. Third of the way in you find yourself wondering: is this really deep, or is it really shallow. Moving forward, it turns into a sci-fi, kinda.
Then the story becomes needlessly complicated. Its not easy to follow but its no Memento, nor is it The Fifth Element so you end up watching till the end and after a few twists and turns the story unfolds.
My opinion is that the first dramatic half is truly shallow and very meh. The second sci-fi half, well they do not explain it that much, but it is also blah. Is this an original movie? Well, the idea of living in a simulation have been discussed before, if that is what the movie was about. Was it? Or was it about falling in "love" with someone you really have no clue about? Or is it telling us that if you're a shallow person your mind will play tricks on you if by chance you happen to become frozen in perpetual dreamland - so you need to improve your personality? Who knows.
I personally prefer the Spanish storyline, it makes more sense. The English version has better acting and production values, because it was done later. Both had horrible dialogue, with very awkward Spanish humor translated into English somehow.
The biggest problem for me is how critics on rotten tomatoes are scoring the Spanish version at 85% but the English one less than half that at 42%, even though it is virtually the same film. Sure the Spanish one was first but as mentioned, it is not really original by its own right. The difference of the scenes, storyline, acting, and language does not justify this big variance. It just goes to show how these critics are a bunch know-it-all parasites. At least here on IMDB the public scores both versions more closely.