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starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincottdirected by: Kathryn Bigelow
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304432457
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6304432453
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: May 20, 1997
Running Time: 145 minutes
Sales Rank: 55285
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: October 13, 1995
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James Cameron wrote the script for this not-so-futuristic science fiction tale about a former vice cop (Ralph Fiennes) who now sells addicting, virtual reality clips that allow a user to experience the recorded sensations of others. He becomes embroiled in a murder conspiracy, tries to save a former girlfriend (Juliette Lewis), and has a romance with his chauffeur and bodyguard (Angela Bassett). Cameron's ex-wife, director Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break), brought the whole, busy, violent enterprise to the screen, and while the film's socially relevant heart is in the right place, its excesses wear one out. Some of the casting doesn't quite click either: Fiennes isn't really right for his nervous role, and Lewis is annoying (and unbelievable as the hero's much-yearned-for former squeeze). Expect some ugly if daring moments with the virtual reality stuff. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - What other movies about Y2K were so much fun?
I loved this movie, if nothing else because it is one of the few times that Ralph Fiennes leaves behind the glacial, remote,untouchable persona of so many of his roles. Yeah,he's kind of greasy at first, but by the end, his eyes are so soft,his face so emotive with love for his friend and desperation to do the right thing.
Plus, this was- at the time, the only modern movie where a beautiful White man, realizes he loves a beautiful Black woman- a woman he respects and has always been ... Read More
Rating: - Strange Sizzle N Sparks
Hadn't seen this film in forever. Saw it a couple times when it came out. Just watched it again today. Wow! I totally forgot how amazing it was.
It's still relevant and a work of art today. I haven't seen anything like it since it came out in '95.
The idea of virtual reality that you can plug into by use of a SQUID, an electronic cap with electrodes to electrically stimulate and manipulate your brain. The use of floppy disks, yeah, okay, it was '95. The use of a big ole box like ... Read More
Rating: - Good "Drug" movie
I enjoyed this film a lot.. although not many fans of "Drug" movies will tag it as such.. but it's a very good thriller with lots of twists and turns.
=)
Rating:  - Brilliant and Fatally Flawed
A brilliant, ambitious failure.
Looking back at this movie from the perspective of 13 years in the future, you can see what the writers and the director were trying to achieve, and, simulataneously, how far they fell short.
The contradictions make it interesting.
The LA of this 1999 looks like a kindler, gentler American occupied Baghdad. It seems to be occupied by a foreign army, and yet nobody seems to get killed. The city is in a constant state of riot, and ... Read More
Rating:  - The Cameron Bigalow film they don't want you to remember
Back in the mid 1990s there was talk about how Katherine Bigelow (ex of James Cameroon and director of popular shows like Near Dark and Point Break) was doing a new movie with state of the art POV (point of view) content that used new camera techniques to put the viewer inside someone's head. The reason for this was to film James Cameron's vision of a world where people are able to record others people's lives via a neural net interface for playback... a sort of hippy drug for the turn of the Millennium. ... Read More
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