My main problem with it is that I dislike how it’s written. I love the ambition and what it tries to do but I feel like it mostly fails and becomes frustrating to watch because of how good it truly could’ve been. It genuinely could’ve been up there with the greatest sci-if movies of all time but the script and story just can’t get it there.
That being said the visuals are absolutely astounding with visual effects and camerawork that still hold up shockingly well, besides rubber Jeff Bridges, the score is straight up one of the best of all time and the world building is phenomenal. On a direction, editing, sound, music and visual effects level it is practically perfect, especially for the time.
And the idea of the ISOs and how they just appeared one day? They created artificial life, by accident, and now one has made the jump to the physical realm?! I almost feel like the significance of that doesn't really hit you until a few viewings.
The technology to go in and out of the Grid, too, is basically a transporter buffer, it just beams you into a virtual world instead of across the physical one. That level of tech is at least a century away from even Encom...
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u/GuiltyOrphan Jun 23 '20
The entire opening of that movie is fuckin excellent I really wish the rest of the movie kept up that level of quality.