A technology that provides life-like experiences lasting a fraction in real time of what they do in the virtual world sounds too good to be true, and of course it all goes south before too long as the commercial mind of the company behind it is touting the idea that it could be used to serve the prison system, with people serving their sentences of years in minutes. Then the lead character, the woman who invented the technology and is trying to adapt it to get her brother out of a coma, ends up being imprisoned in the selfsame virtual world for her unsanctioned activities.
There's a lot going on here, and barring a momentary disconnection with coherence towards the end, it just about hangs together. What it loses on some derivative aspects -
Inception in particular looms large with the constant questioning of what is real, and the parallels with countless drug films - it makes up for with its visuals, soundtrack and ambience; it doesn't feel like a modern mass product but instead of those paranoid thrillers from the '70s like
The Conversation or
Three Days of the Condor.
6/10
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