XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

thisanant wow! what a work! i still don't know the genre , maybe it is animation/live action or something i don't know. what i do know is this -"THIS IS EXTRAORDINARY." the story is pure but the highlight is the performance of the cast , they are splendid , this doesn't feel like a movie , it is real . SUPERPS it is hilarious a lot of times too!

KineticSeoul This film is based on a book by Philip K. Dick. Now I haven't read any of his books yet but from what I heard this is a solid adaptation. And this is a pretty darn good conspiracy film about a guy coping with his surroundings and a drug called Substance D. A drug that causes bizarre hallucination and makes them go all schizo and paranoid. It's basically a film that might be difficult to comprehend at first but you get use to it and it all makes clear to a degree. Keanu Reeves plays a guy named Bob Arctor who goes by other aliases. Now I don't think Keanu Reeves is a brilliant actor but he usually fits the roles he is given and in this case just perfectly. Keanu is really good at playing these confused and apathetic roles. Just about everyone is right for the roles they were given for this film. Robert Downey, Jr. is good at playing these pedantic and slightly weird characters and he nails it in this. Woody Harrelson is alright in this. But the guy that really nails it in this is Rory Cochrane, who is this jumpy, twitchy and overly paranoid character. And Rorly plays him flawlessly. Winona Ryder is also in this but felt that a bunch of other actresses could have played her role. When it comes down to it, it's the interactions between these characters that is the primary focus. And the conversations and the direction is clever and sometimes dumb(in a good way) but mostly amusing. This movie is shot with real actors but rendered into animation. Which adds to the weirdness of this film and bring out more of that trippy feel while it being cool and all. But wondered why they picked this subtle movie to do that in. Cause if they could have picked a story with explosions, car chases and other special effects and just used animation. It would have saved themselves a lot of budget and still could have gotten away with it in the audiences eyes. Although the animation rendering works in this film and doesn't seem like a gimmick. And even has couple of messages that can keep the audiences that watch this film thinking. And it's clever with it's execution, despite a twist when it hits I wondered how I could have missed that. Overall this is a good sci-fi conspiracy film that is well blended together. It's just a shame this film bombed at the box office.7.4/10

vitachiel It's easier to criticize a movie than to praise one. This movie deserves to be criticized. The people who worked on this film can be expected to be uninnovative. OK, maybe they thought it original to use this drawing effect. The thing is that nobody is stupid enough to use such a lousy effect for the duration of a whole picture.The choice of the cast says enough, and we'll have to go through all of it again: Robert Downey Jr. in his usual mannerism mode, Keanu Reeves as the no-talent superficial dude and Woody Harrelson - who in my opinion is a rather fine actor - shines here as the most annoying character in the movie, some kind of unbelievable smart-ass, childish stoner 'freak'.The story? A mix of science fiction, drug-related crime and comedy make for a boring ride, complete with undercover cops wearing automatically changing content suits. Yeah, right...

welshcheese I finished reading the book and later that day watched the film.I felt that it would be very hard to make the book in to a film due to the amount of narrative, but we have CGI and talent and money, so why not? I watched it with someone who had not read the book, and they thought they had fallen asleep in the middle and missed a bit. They had not, and found it totally confusing.I felt the funny/drug parts of the book were included in the film to help it sell, and the substance of the book was omitted.The original story is a sine wave with peaks of fun and troughs of dark paranoia, becoming more amplified as time goes on. This gave the story flow and a direction which made sense leading us to the conclusion.The film brought to life everything I imagined from the book, but lacked in depth and complexities. This prevented the many layers of paranoia and therefore gradual loss of reality being laid on top of each other, thus losing the building tension that is in the book.This should have been an Apocalypse Now length film, without the added animation effect, and the rest of the original story included. I felt the director got in to the heads of all the characters in the book fully, except for Arctors'.Perhaps you need to have been to darker side of your mind, to recognise it and therefore portray this in the film.You cant make a film just using the 'best bits' of a PKD book as it obviously doesn't work