• 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
  • Recommend but not in the top 20 of 1977