Review of A Scanner Darkly (2006) by Jon — 03 Aug 2006

Always funny to see people give a movie a bad score because they didn't get it, you know the type, they tend to use nouns like diatribe as adjectives. Anyway I thought this movie was pretty good, not the best thing I have ever seen, but certainly the best thing I've seen this summer.

I don't really see where the mass confusion on the plot is coming from, I didn't find it all the hard to grasp (if you can follow fight club or pulp fiction you should get this.) I liked the use of animation (particularly on the scramble suits) and frankly I don't understand the people complaining about it being annoying, you knew it was animated going in to it.

Every trailer, T.V. spot, and even the poster show case this fact, it just seems like an easy gripe because the movie didn't turn out to be the matrix four or dazed and confused two. Anyway, a good movie (unless you're looking for live action, action adventure packed with one liners and super heroes) and a great book adaptation (PKD's son and daughter say that their father would be proud of it.