Very borderline archiveable—it has some interesting ideas – very much a 2001 meets rosemary’s baby (and it is absolutely influenced fully by those two masterpieces—you can even picture two producers putting the idea together) and a great lead performance from Julie Christie
Robert Vaughn does a superb job as the voice Proteus IV (hard to believe he was uncredited for it)
Cammell isn’t a great director- he co-directed 1970’s performance with roeg but roeg is the talent there
The premise certainly has modern relevance with google home or alexa
Great “you like games?” line from the voice as he terrorizes a trapped, and very game Julie Christie
Christie buoys the goofy scenes and weaker moments to keep the film afloat right when you’re about to jump ship a an evaluative viewer—the film almost loses me completely when you have that golden child robot thing birth scene at the end but it turns out just to be a shell or egg for the child
The special effects and computer incarnation on a screen are very lava lampy— not so great
The ambition of the films ideas far exceeds that of the craft of camel
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