Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

huwdj An interesting attempt at (I think) a new age post Gibson cyber punk film but I'm afraid I couldn't get past the lip syncing. I don't know if they made it in English but then recorded it badly in post production or just dubbed it awkwardly – probably the latter. I think it might actually have worked better with subtitles. There were a lot silly sentences – you know what I mean, we've all seen it in the Sergio Leone films. It's a good story, Lambert and some very interesting women. There is also a host of eccentric supporting players busy chewing the scenery in a production that looks a bit cheap and choppy. It's watchable but I think I'll enjoy it more next time around.

bob the moo In the near future Jimi Dini is a computer programmer working on Nirvana – the newest and most expansive video game experience out there. Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend, Jimi is given a different focus when one of the characters in his game "Solo" appears to have developed consciousness as a result of a computer virus infecting the software. While Solo attempts to work out the world around him and negotiate his rigid world of regular "game overs", Jimi tries to get to the source of the game and delete the source.My first impressions about this film were mainly directed by my instant aversion to the bad dubbing and the obvious budget limitations but I tried to get passed them and look at the story and the ideas within the script instead. I admit that this was a hard step to make and one that I never managed to totally make. Perhaps the reason I didn't manage it was because there wasn't enough to consistently make me ignore it. It is a real shame because, despite the many negative reviews here, there is actually a lot of potential in some parts of the film that are clever and interesting. Surprisingly it is the in-game aspect that provides much of this, although at first this part looked to be the weakest. However the delivery of these ideas are weak and never really gets beyond the level of superficial philosophising. In the "real world" things are delivered with a visual flair that a better budget would have made great but the material really isn't there for the viewer.I won't add my voice to the moans about bad dubbing etc because a lot of the criticism here is blunt and thoughtless, but I will agree that this is a pretty weak film. It ripped at me so much that it would have flashes of good ideas that it then flushes away or wastes. Likewise the visual style and touches from Salvatores was laudable but lost in the cheap cyberpunk world that the budget allowed for. The cast are hard to judge because of the dubbing. Lambert is stiff and hard to really engage with. It is crude perhaps, but I can only comment on the rest of the performances based on the dubbing because it was such a dominant factor and turned the rest of the cast into hammy and gruff turns – whether they were like that or not I cannot say.Overall then, a mostly poor sci-fi that make frustratingly little of good ideas that are occasionally thrown up. Salvatores has some strong visual touches but the overwhelming nature of the uninspiring cyberpunk design takes away from those while the cast flounder beneath a terribly hammy dubbed soundtrack. Not as lacking in value as some would suggest but certainly not a film I would recommend to anyone but the most hardcore cyberpunk sci-fi fan.

kaltorak2k I've seen the Italian version and I found the dubbing marvelous,in particular Lisa-Emmanuelle Seigner, the interpretation very good, I really loved Solo-Diego Abatantuono in this new role. You know, in Italy he's a comic-cabaretist of the '80. Jimi decides to leave his normal and blank life of programmer to find his beloved Lisa, his life, in a cyberpunk "blade runner like" world. His story interlaces with Solo's story, the main character of the Jimi's video game. He gain auto-conscience thanks to a virus and find himself trapped in the game and is forced to repeat the same events over and over, he's only hope i Jimi... Particular story, I think it's from a book. Symbolisms, starting from the title...

titaa I've read a novel, recently, called "Neuromancian", from William Gibson. I was suprised, because many themes from this novel were in this movie. IA, Cyberspace, Cow-boys, Junkies, etc. This novel is the first from a litterature genre called "Cyber-punk". I think that anyone who liked this movie should read this novel, and vice versa. The movie took many simplifications, even unpossible things. But I liked it very much.