Review of Strange Days (1995) by Mark D — 13 Sep 2008

It has kind of surface qualities that you can't deny, but somehow it was all too much surface. The situations were too black and white, and everything was somehow some kind of stereotype, as were the characters.

All too unconvincing, along with the simplistic view of the 'future' (looking from 1995) that it presented, with the future masses, and their behaviour (listening to bad heavy metal and trashing the place, on the whole, with little convincing connection between that and anything else).

All too one-dimensional and not believable and a bunch of 'cool' concepts of certain elements that don't seem grounded anywhere and don't seem to fit into any real context with each other.

And even for plainly, unartistically stated ideas, we only got simple literal points made ('memories are meant to fade, they're designed like that for a reason'). The whole film therefore not able to stir up any relationship in me to anything that's really matters to me.

So, left cold. Kind of empty.