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Genres:
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Animation /
Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Richard Linklater
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Actors:
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Mitch Baker,
Steven Chester Prince,
Chamblee Ferguson,
Sean Allen,
Cliff Haby,
Natasha Valdez,
Mark Turner,
Angela Rawna,
Eliza Stevens,
Sarah Menchaca,
Rory Cochrane,
Robert Downey Jr.,
Keanu Reeves,
Winona Ryder,
Woody Harrelson
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Duration:
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100 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)115.5
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Plot Summary:
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The L.A. of a not-too-unfriendly future suffers a surge of drug misapplication involving a supplementary ultra-addictive and sooner perception-damaging substance altogether named "D". Bob Arctor is an confidential narc leading a double soul, dutifully reporting to his superiors while effectively having abandoned whatever general existence he had for a "D" purchaser/trader employment. But this schizophrenic situation and the drug-induced memory and concentration lapses put Bob under mounting pressure.
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Unwatchable...
...and I don't just mean that I didn't like it. The digital effect that has been applied to the whole film is very hard on the eye - it's like watching a badly made cartoon. I might have persisted if the plot had grabbed my attention, but it didn't.
A scanner tediously
Enough things in life are designed whether by accident or deliberately to induce a migraine so I can’t say watching A Scanner Darkly was a very pleasant experience. It ,s rotoscoping animation effect reminded me of nothing more than the flashing light warning of the onset of a headache so powerful it could cause your house to subside.
If this doesn’t render the viewing experience a bit of a trial the moribund screenplay will. This is a movie so dull it’s drug induced plot wouldn’t even get Anne Widdicombe excited .While it is undoubtedly true to Philip K Dicks vision and the rotoscoping does induce a dreamlike quality entirely in correlation with its tale of drug overload the whole experience winds up not unlike listening to the tedious ramblings of a drug a...
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