• With a second watch I’m not sure if some of the flimsier connective tissue will meld—or float apart—but either way it’s a wildly innovative, intelligent, and aspiring film
  • While being wholly original (excited to see what Riley does next)—it has certainly has influences from everything to Gilliam (Brazil especially), Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), to Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man!— Alex Cox is in there as well with Repo Man
  • It does go 20 different ways (detractors calling it “scattershot” and it does feel a little long for a 105 minute movie perhaps because of this) but its entertaining, political, allegorical and ambitious
  • Stanfield can for sure carry a film- he’s confident, funny—
  • The retro sci-fi anarchy is inspired and to be fair there are entire characters and sequences whose meanings don’t easily reveal themselves—but could with another watch
  • Recommend