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I was blown away by how shallow and incredibly condescending this movie was. On one hand the plot made no overall sense. The drugs, the so called convoluted plot twist. Absolutely no sense at all. The tasteless "glam and bling" was like an over done Guy Richie film and pushed into your face over and over, when someone who's truly sophisticated and successful (or can act as such) wouldn't need so many props to keep reminding us. The reactions of the main characters that we were shown were quite frankly bizzare (maybe it was the drugs). If it was the drugs, what we were privy to was a load of people off their faces making absolutely no sense at all - and no movie should ever be based on something like that. Russel Crowe's "enlightenment" concluding the film fell flatter than a coffin lid. Anyway, I hope he has another go at directing, but he's much better at just acting. Master and Commander. Obviously this movie cost a bob or two, but maybe next time he should consider "what makes a good script". If you can't visualise it Russell, you shouldn't make a movie about it. If you could visualise this, visualise differently next time.

If anyone has ever read Iain M. Banks and his Culture universe novels, they'd recognised immediately that several of the scenes and the main premise of this movies is stolen directly from his novels. They were original when Iain wrote them. A monastery where a guy going through the late life immortality boredom period has his eyes surgically replaced with ears in order to experience the transcendence of an alien music played through giant ancient flutes carved into a range of mountains. A party where the theme is "horrific and grotesque body injuries where a surgeon actually performs all the injuries for the guest because pain is a thing of the past and nearly every physical injury is survivable. I don't think people should take other peoples ideas and try to pass them off as their own originality.