Like a few others here, I found this film to be amateurishly impoverished. Dick's book isn't considered to be among his better works so one needs to be addicted to him if the review is least a 7 or higher. So director Simon had little material to work with. Or fascists will rate a pro-fascist film high marks. Here's why it's an awful waste of nearly two hours (did I just do that?): awful acting where the best acting was by the young female FAPer and the incarcerated former preacher at the end. Actors couldn't display any emotions but kept robotic faces through the film. Horrible script which seemed silly at times. Terrible sets on a budget. Amateur special effects. This film, in fact, was stopped in mid-production since it ran out of its low budget and finally took another 3 years to finish after getting more to pull it through. Unfortunately, that should have never happened. In the end, one of the worst sci-fi's to be made that takes itself seriously. That is, B sci-fi classics don't seem to have that same sober feeling, rather we rejoice how bad they are. There is no joy in Mudville here. For this film, it's more about burying a dead rock. Lifeless film.
Review of Radio Free Albemuth
Radio Free Albemuth
(2010)
Wow! Reviewers and film crew must be on Grass From Aramchek!
11 January 2019