LX 2048

Dystopian yawn fest. No new ideas. Predictable story. James D'Arcy, to be fair to him, is pretty good in it. Some will say that the lack of real life contact that the characters have, causes the unbelievable and unconvincing interactions between the characters, within this storyline, but in all honesty, was just a poor script with poor actors. I probably thought more times about switching it off, before the end, than I have done for a film for a while, but I kept at it because I considered there might be a good twist or something, but no.

Great idea for a movie but one hour plus of listening to a self pitying manic depressive is very hard to stick to. Very slow at times and hard to stick with it without losing interest, or without getting fed up with the constant whining and misery.

I wasn't expecting much with a 4.8/10 rating on IMDb but this movie is excellent in every way. Very nicely written and scripted, nicely filmed for a low-budget movie (quality of the production looks much higher), good acting, good soundtrack and good incidental music that actually blends with the dialog so much you don't even notice it. This is a great futuristic sci-fi movie that makes you think. It's along the same lines as the Bruce Willis sci-fi film Surrogates. Too bad it hasn't been seen much (currently only 149 ratings as compared to popular movies with ratings in the multi-thousands.) I give this a 9/10 and that rating might be a bit conservative.

My wife and I normally rate the movies we watch seperately and 90% of the time we rate it the same. Not for this one though, as I apparently enjoyed it much more than her, I gave it an eight and she gave it a six, which is a big gap for us. That said I write the reviews so it's going to be a positive one. Considering the budget it's a well made sci-fi, nothing too fancy in CGI's but the ones that were present gave us a good futuristic look. As well did the story, which was most entertaining to follow. Maybe a bit slow but certainly not boring. The concept of the story makes you think about the future and everything doesn't even look that far fetched when you see the new technology we get every year. Guy Moshe did a good job writing and directing this movie. As for the acting, James D'Arcy plays the main character and because of his good acting it's one of those performances that keeps you interested in the story. Once again I'm happy I didn't pay too much attention to the low ratings it got on IMDb, as most of the time I enjoy low rated movies with some positive well argumented reviews, and that even if there are a lot of extremely negative reviews from people that are just never satisfied. To me this movie is a good sci-fi, much better than some high budget sci-fi movies.

The film is pretty to look at, but the pace is slow. The build up is far too long, and by the time something happens it is already too late to recapture the viewers' interest.