A consistently
engaging genre effort in its own right, employing unsettling production values and an enormous cast of well - drawn characters for a narratively splintered investigation into questions of fate and free will.
Not exact matches
is the latest
effort to attempt to
engage audiences eager for comic courtship content, however it too proves a pale imitation of the progenitors of the
genre.
Nichols is playing with
genre this time, a soft sci - fi
effort that shows his ability to captivate an
engaged audience with his confident control of craft.
The
engaging authenticity of the film's settings and production design — which nip piecemeal inspiration from some of the aforementioned
genre efforts, but also movies like Dark City — go a long way toward holding an audience's interest.