Dot.Kill (2005)
9/10
Asante's terminal Soliloquy
9 November 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Armand Asanti, alpha male, is good at anger and never shows cracks. But this time around he's got cancer, and a doctor who won't accomodate his morphine addiction. That's what an ex-junkie mistress is for, and he does have one of those.

He's after a tech genius that slaughter's CEO's to give the world a bloody valentine. Armand know's he a relic when it comes to tech, but he also knows, so we do too, that his department handgun and guts will save the day, definately an appealing philosophy as AI looms. But this movie's just not holding up, here with my peers. In equal measure, ole contrarians like me aren't daunted, and Armand, showing some softness, and at war with it in a battle he can't win, has never, to me, been this good on screen, nor rated a sentence with this many commas.

The ending is interesting and brings a surreal touch to the grainy docu-drama that precedes it, and it's modeled on Rutger Hauer's renowned scene, his last living minutes as a replicant at the close of Blade Runner, the "Tears in the Rain" speech. With only seconds left until the explosion, reconciled to death, Asante calmly soliloquizes, with terminal abbreviation, who he is and what it all means. I think it's a very coherent interesting movie.
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