Category: Reviews & Analyses
Pandorum review
| July 26, 2010 | Posted by Martin under International SF |
Sometimes you read a synopsis or watch a trailer for a movie you are interested in, but which makes you want to avoid that movie altogether. Sometimes this decision is later revealed to have been totally wrong. This is the case with the intriguing movie Pandorum (2009). The movie takes place in a future where an overpopulated Earth decides to send out a huge ship with settlers to an Earth like planet. We get to follow corporal Bower, a member of one of the bridge crews, as he and his captain wakes up from hyper-sleep. The captain stays in the control room where they woke up and Bower tries to get to the engine room to reset the reactor of the ship. more!
Inception review
| July 23, 2010 | Posted by Martin under International SF |
Every now and then you see a movie that just seems to be THE movie of that genre and theme. There ain’t much of an idea to make another movie like it as it will only feel like a copy. For me, the best example of this was The Matrix from 1999, but yesterday I saw the Swedish sneak premiere of Inception and was totally blown away in the same way as I was when I saw The Matrix. The story is hard to describe and I would almost suggest to stop reading this and see the movie instead, but mainly it is about people with the ability to tap in and participate in the dreams of others. more!
Hardwired review
| July 22, 2010 | Posted by Martin under International SF |
At cyberpunkreview.com I stumbled over this movie called Hardwired (2009). The term is hacker slang for inserting hard data directly into a program and that is kind of what the movie is centred around. Luke Gibson, an ex-soldier and soon to be father, living in a dystopic future, becomes brain damaged in a car accident, where he also loses his wife. He has no health insurance, but the Hope Corporation gives him a new chance by giving him a brain implant for free. Shortly after waking up he starts having commercial, personalized hallucinations and are subjected to great amounts of pain. A rebel group, which know about the Hope Corporations secret plans, manage to hack his implant and together they set out to bring down the corporation. more!
Metropia review
| July 22, 2010 | Posted by Martin under Swedish SF |
It’s not very common that Swedish science fiction movies makes it to the cinema, but 2009 there were two that did that; Kenny Begins and Metropia. Metropia is about Roger, a regular phone salesman that lives in a dystopic Europe of 2024, where the oil is almost depleted and the subway networks have been connected to each other all over the continent. Roger avoids the subways as he feels he hears voices when he is down there. When he cannot use his bike, which he uses instead of the subway, he has to go underground never the less. But during this journey he meets a girl from the commercials and a conspiracy connected to the voices in his head begins to unfold. more!
Martin Wikner
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