Review – A Scanner Darkly

The main attraction here is the animation, that stuff that looks like Rotoscoping done with Adobe Streamline. It gives the filmmakers the creative freedom to do some things that would have been difficult with live-action or even more traditional animation techniques. However, the stuff causes two problems. First, the computer occasionally makes decisions that don’t work, turning out more like a bad video game than a slickly-produced movie. And second, it gets old after awhile. The story is a semi-sci-fi tale of stoners trying to keep up their recreational habits in a bizarre, tech-heavy, near-future society. Overall it’s hard to say if this is supposed to be pro-drug or anti-drug. Or neither. Or both. This is a considerable distance from the best movie ever made based on a novel by Philip K. Dick. See if desperate