Engaging, genuinely thrilling sci-fi. Enough to make you wish Bigelow made a movie a year.
Strange Days (1995)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:21
Rotten:15
Average Rating:6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 25 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: It is 1999, and urban society is little more than a vast wasteland of anarchic violence. Seedy, burnt-out ex-cop Lenny Nero caters to the sensation-seeking citizens by dealing in "clips": virtual... It is 1999, and urban society is little more than a vast wasteland of anarchic violence. Seedy, burnt-out ex-cop Lenny Nero caters to the sensation-seeking citizens by dealing in "clips": virtual reality sequences where the user can "re-live" the experiences of another, including robberies, rape and murder. But Lenny's life is turned upside-down when two rabid cops, who want an incriminating clip that Lenny possesses, begin to pursue him. Furthermore, Lenny, with the help of female bodyguard Mace, is desperately searching throughout the chaotic enclaves of L.A. for his ex-girlfriend Faith, who he still loves. Everything comes to a head at a wild, tremendous -- and turbulent -- New Year's Eve party that will usher in the new millennium. [More]
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D'Onofrio, Glenn Plummer, Richard Edson
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Composer: Graeme Revell
Story: James Cameron
Screenwriter: James Cameron, Jay Cocks
Producer: James Cameron, Steven-Charles Jaffe
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The early promise of the film gives way to exploitation; satire mutates into drivel.
What a kick -- Strange Days is an action movie with real characters and uncommonly skillful actors.
Ralph Fiennes is the perfect sleazebag, while Angela Bassett and Juliette Lewis provide good support.
After awhile Strange Days becomes merely a predictable parade of senses-assaulting indignities with a surprisingly conventional, by-the-numbers story.
Little more than two-and-a-half hours of enjoyable action, futuristic gadgetry and characters perennially on the brink of being compelling.
The end result is an interesting little film that's just, well, 'strange.'
Bigelow is so enamored of high-tech thrills, and so mesmerized by the violence she seeks to condemn, that her efforts at 11th-hour moralizing seem limp and halfhearted.
Set in LA at the end of the century, this morality tales showed again the main problem in the director's work: The great divide between simlistic plots and technical sophistication. Even so, it's one of a kind for its use of color, sound and motion
It's big, explosive entertainment and, although not directed by Cameron, is very much in the vein we've come to expect from him.
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