An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick, especially since it had been rather poorly received when it was released (it was also a huge box-office flop), but, since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, eventually, I really had a hard time to care about the damned thing after all. I mean, Lisa Joy is mostly known for being the showrunner on ‘Westworld’ (which I never saw) and, visually, it seemed to be a slick SF feature. Unfortunately, the end-result was a rather tedious neo-film noir mixed up with ‘Inception’ (Lisa Joy is actually married to Jonathan Nolan) and with a dash of ‘Ghost’. So, for her directorial debut, Joy went for something quite ambitious but it clearly backfired here. I mean, right from the start, what kind of half-baked post-apocalyptic world was that? Sure, visually, the various locations were intriguing but, at the end of the day, they didn’t do anything really interesting with this. The whole concept of people revisiting memories was also rather clunky and not as clever or as original as they thought. There was also this major plot-hole that they would gather some very specific details from someone’s memories, even things that they obviously didn’t pick up at all when the event took place, which didn’t make much sense. Memories are fuzzy at best and how could you gather some information that a client didn’t notice at all when the actual memory took place? The connection between Nick and Mae was also poorly established and, as pointed out by Watts time and time again, it didn’t make much sense that the guy would keep investigating her disappearance. At the end of the day, the whole thing was just too convoluted and, above all, barely entertaining at all. Anyway, to conclude, even if I have seen worse, the damned thing was really weak and you should probably avoid it. 

5/10