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Cyber Wars: Good Intentions Aren’t Enough

January 19, 2008 |

Just saw a so-so little movie on Encore called Cyber Wars. Cyberpunk wannabe, well-intentioned, hard-working, but just under-resourced, under-fed, under-developed. A world blending and overlaying virtual reality on reality-reality… corporations and massively powerful and capricious individuals running everything like a game, a cop and a bounty hunter of sorts working together to figure out what’s really behind everything, and a world that was clearly meant to be richly imagined and mood-setting in the way that Blade Runner was. But… it takes more than good intentions and a modicum of vision to build something as lush as Blade Runner, and no one involved in this has quite the talent to pull it off.  (Also, it apparently came out of Singapore, which is ironic, given that little dream-city-island’s own semi-fictional status.)

Not horrible, really, just… flaccid, especially post-Matrix, post-Ghost in the Shell, post-Blade Runner. Completely worth missing.

Other working titles: Avatar Exile (Singapore: English title) ; Cyber Wars (USA) ; (DVD title) Matrix Hunter (USA) (video title)

 


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