I liked it, too.

She's gone really thin though. Reminds me of Christina Ricci how the older she's gotten, the thinner she has become.

I liked the movie, kinda reminded me of an episode of Black Mirror. I also enjoyed how technology was just added to the facade of the buildings and surroundings, and the world had not become like Blade Runner or The Fifth Element with flying spaceships and the like.

@Rickers said:

Decent for a Netflix movie.

This sentiment is discouraging...true, perhaps, but discouraging nonetheless. I agree with you though: I liked it overall.

@cpheonix said:

I liked the movie, kinda reminded me of an episode of Black Mirror. I also enjoyed how technology was just added to the facade of the buildings and surroundings, and the world had not become like Blade Runner or The Fifth Element with flying spaceships and the like.

I couldn't help but think of Black Mirror either. It was a fairly complete look at such a world, except there were a few times when it seemed to break it's own rules (specifically the "almost fell down the elevator shaft" moment...I'm sure there were more that I missed). That said, the color choices/lack of saturation was an interesting call. I get that if all facades are "virtual" then everything becomes utilitarian (a.k.a. gray), but why not have more color in the ads? Seems unlikely they would be so uniform.

Just pickin' nits. Still liked the film overall.

@Daddie0 said:

I couldn't help but think of Black Mirror either. It was a fairly complete look at such a world, except there were a few times when it seemed to break it's own rules (specifically the "almost fell down the elevator shaft" moment...I'm sure there were more that I missed). That said, the color choices/lack of saturation was an interesting call. I get that if all facades are "virtual" then everything becomes utilitarian (a.k.a. gray), but why not have more color in the ads? Seems unlikely they would be so uniform.

This did also remind me of Minority Report with the colour saturation, but also how the story unfolded.

Could you please elaborate more on how it broke its own rules? Although I agree and kept thinking something seemed off with the logic of this, particularly the proximity views, I couldn't quite pinpoint what it could be. I thought that he nearly fell down the elevator shaft because his view was hacked for it to appear as if it was there??

Like you say, still enjoyed it though :)

@cpheonix said:

Could you please elaborate more on how it broke its own rules? Although I agree and kept thinking something seemed off with the logic of this, particularly the proximity views, I couldn't quite pinpoint what it could be. I thought that he nearly fell down the elevator shaft because his view was hacked for it to appear as if it was there??

So this is minor, and someone more observant may find similar consistency errors, but comparing the elevator shaft to the tumble down the stairs:

-When he fell down the stairs it was because they had hacked his view to see a mid-flight "platform" where in actuality there was an uninterrupted staircase...he steps out, misses a step and tumbles down the stairs. Fair enough (and quite clever as a premise)

-At the elevator shaft he approaches the elevator, sees the doors open and the floor inside the elevator, then just as he starts to step off he realizes that the elevator is not there and he nearly fell to his death. This is fine, except that in "reality" the elevator doors would have to be open with the elevator not there, which is a physical requirement in the real world not a perceptual requirement of hacking. In other words, if it was perception only, he would have walked into the door, not fallen down the elevator shaft.

Again, this is minor, and since hackers are hacking themselves out of scenes in real time they could theoretically be there making real physical changes, but that is not really the premise of the film. FWIW.

@Daddie0 said:

-At the elevator shaft he approaches the elevator, sees the doors open and the floor inside the elevator, then just as he starts to step off he realizes that the elevator is not there and he nearly fell to his death. This is fine, except that in "reality" the elevator doors would have to be open with the elevator not there, which is a physical requirement in the real world not a perceptual requirement of hacking. In other words, if it was perception only, he would have walked into the door, not fallen down the elevator shaft.

I would have thought that overriding the safety protocols on the elevator would have been simple enough given the other stuff the hackers could do.

@M. LeMarchand said:

I would have thought that overriding the safety protocols on the elevator would have been simple enough given the other stuff the hackers could do.

Hence the relevant comment that immediately followed what you quoted:

@Daddie0 said:

Again, this is minor, and since hackers are hacking themselves out of scenes in real time they could theoretically be there making real physical changes, but that is not really the premise of the film.