Woah, what a weird film. I’ve not read the original novel of A Scanner Darkly (by Philip K Dick, if I recall correctly) but I have a feeling it would be one of those so-called “unfilmable” ones. It shows.
The main reason I decided to watch it was the very unusual way it’s been presented. Like Sin City and 300, digital messing about has made the original film look very cartoony. Itndoes suit the movie as it’s based around drugs and the whole image is somewhat trippy.
Plot-in-a-nutshell: Your guess is as good as mine. Something to do with an undercover agent being asked to monitor himself. Or something. It’s all really bloody stranges.
It’s hard to tell if any of the actors in it are any good as the graphic effects take a lot away from the facial looks. In places it’s comical, in others very dark indeed. Overall it’s just plain… bizarre.
Even when it finished I wasn’t sure what had just happened in the last ninety minutes. But it looks good.
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