I was psyched for this movie. After all, Spike Jonze usually makes interesting movies. It stars Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and Scarlet Johannson's voice ... each of those is a selling point to me. And it deals with a lot of my favorite themes - what consciousness is, what reality is, what sexuality is. I was up for this one.
Unfortunately, the movie is a big bowl of nothingness. The performances are fine - Phoenix is excellent actually. (Playing Spike Jonze). The pace is slow, but not terribly so. But NOTHING HAPPENS. (Is it a spoiler to tell you that nothing happens? That there's a terrible absence of dramatic conflict? I don't think so). It's just one huge anti-climax.
My recommendation here is to save the money you would have spent on a ticket and apply it to almost any novel by Philip K. Dick, who writes largely about these same themes. But with energy and vision, which are lacking here. Rating : D+.
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