Dovetailing nicely with the last two movies, A Scanner Darkly is yet another tale of government invasiveness in the name of protecting the people, but as always there's a sinister underbelly at play. Also, the concept of someone going so deep undercover that even his bosses and eventually he himself don't even realize who he really is was quite interesting and well executed.
The main draw (hehe) to this movie is the visual style of the animation layered on top of the filmed actors. I found this mesmerizing, even though all the bugs at the beginning made me want to hurl. Brandon, on the other hand, found the drawing over the actors to be unnecessary and distracting. Mostly he found it frustrating because he knew the actors but the style just made it seem like his vision was distorted, although he acknowledges that this could have been used as another mechanism to drive home the main points of the movie. He felt like the only clear value of the artistic choices came from the depiction of the cloaking suits.
I am firmly Team Keanu and always have been, so I was as pleased with his performance as I ever am. Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson were hilarious together as paranoid drug addicts, and the ridiculous scene where they tried to determine how many gears a bike had was particularly genius.
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