Warning: Spoilers herein All right, to set some things straight: the story of the skater clones and the mixed up assassination, even thought especially the assassination sounded familiar, was really good. But the film that was constructed around it - horrible. Despicable. Repugnant. The entire winter thing - the Scandinavian vision of the end of the world, Ragnarök, eternal winter. Okay, it sure would be nice to make a film about that, but not only did it not fit in here, it was annoying and disorienting. The flying Ugandan's? Ripped of from Tim Earnshaw's rather nice novel, Helium. The man who could not stop flying? Okay, nice, really nice actually, but on the other hand - totally wasted.
Add to that annoying monotony and the simple fact that I am absolutely positive that I have either seen or read most of what I mentioned above elsewhere, this film is a crime against celluloid. Sure, the idea of putting global disaster into the background and focusing on some other stuff is really nice, but it did not work here - like anything else in the bloody film. I want these 90 minutes of my life back, dammit!
I gave this film a chance, really, I did, so I was even more disappointed. I thought maybe, just maybe, it's some kind of insider thing - something that would fall into my list of "underrated but great movies". No. It didn't even make "underrated but passable".
Add to that annoying monotony and the simple fact that I am absolutely positive that I have either seen or read most of what I mentioned above elsewhere, this film is a crime against celluloid. Sure, the idea of putting global disaster into the background and focusing on some other stuff is really nice, but it did not work here - like anything else in the bloody film. I want these 90 minutes of my life back, dammit!
I gave this film a chance, really, I did, so I was even more disappointed. I thought maybe, just maybe, it's some kind of insider thing - something that would fall into my list of "underrated but great movies". No. It didn't even make "underrated but passable".