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Overview

User Rating:
5.9/10   1,105 votes
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Director:
Alex Rivera
Writers (WGA):
Alex Rivera (screenplay) &
David Riker (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
10 December 2008 (France) more
Genre:
Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
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Plot:
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
5 wins & 5 nominations more
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(58 articles)
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Leonor Varela ... Luz Martínez

Jacob Vargas ... Rudy
Luis Fernando Peña ... Memo
Giovanna Zacarías
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marius Biegai ... Camera man
Emilio Guerrero ... Ricky
Jake Koenig ... Foreman
Ursula Tania ... Prostitute
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some violence and sexuality.
Runtime:
90 min
Country:
USA | Mexico
Language:
Spanish | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
USA:PG-13
Company:
Likely Story more

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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Memo, at work operating the robot, helps the worker next to him who collapses, he is not wearing the contact lenses that he needs to operate the robot. (He did not have time to take them out.) more

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28 out of 39 people found the following comment useful.
"Rule1A", 18 March 2008
10/10
Author: Deran Ludd from United States

Well, the above reviewer beat me to my warning: If you are some god forsaken film student, or "Hollywood" film buff, you will hate this film. The structure is open and allows for a great deal on viewer interpretation that most US film goers hate, and even fear. But I love, I love the director giving me images and direction, and then letting fill in some inferences and this not clearly delineated.

The film makes excellent cinematic use of cultural and social cyphers, and (I hate to say this almost for fear of "tainting" it; a slight magical realism to cast a wide net of meaning, not to tell some stupid plot arc formula. It is a brilliant, exciting, deeply satisfying movie (finally some one is talking abt these issues cinematically, and making a great movie), and I even found it fun. A well crafted daring film.

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