Review #8 - A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Fasten your seatbelts, my little chickens. Here's the summary from Netflix:

"Keanu Reeves shoulders another futuristic role in director Richard Linklater's sci-fi thriller based on Philips K. Dick's novel. Working as an undercover cop in a world where almost every is addicted to Substance D, which produces split personalities in its users, Fred Arctor (Reeves) sets up an elaborate sting to nab a notorious drug runner named Bob. But little does Fred know that "Bob" is....his alter ego."

So. This film is actually animated, like one of those wonky little graphic novels that are cluttering Wal-Mart shelves following the release of the Twilight series. I have no clue how one accomplishes this, but it was intriguing to watch.

RDJR and Woody Harrelson portray Fred's druggie roommates. Their interaction is fuuuunny. Good stuff there.

I watched this film for 1 hour and 40 minutes and I still have no idea what it REALLY was about. This guy is really this way, but actually he only thinks he's this way, he's really THAT way, but in the end, we find out that THIS way is actually THAT way....

A little less convolution, a little more action, baby.

Toward the end, there's a scene where Keanu Reeves throws up all over the floor. I know how he felt. By the end, I wanted to vomit from the sheer relief of not having to keep track of what da heck was going on anymore.

I give it a 6, because I thought the paranoid druggie argument scenes between RDJR and Harrelson were hysterical, and because the animation thing was kinda cool.

Tina