A Scanner Darkly (movie)

Since I see so many movies, I thought I would add movie reviews to my blog, and am starting out with the movie I saw today, A Scanner Darkly. I'll start off by saying this movie strays far away from using conventional story telling. It takes place seven years in the future where everything is watched by scanners, and a new drug, Substance D is taking the world by storm. To quote the movie, "you havn't tried [Substance D] or you're addicted." The drug causes hardcore hallucinations as well as severe mental damage. The movie revolves around three addicts of this Substance D; the thing is, the leader of the three is an undercover cop. As I said before, the movie doesn't use anything close to conventional storytelling, and is quite weird due to the odd effects of the drug the movie is based around. It's sort of hard to review something I've never seen before, but I can say what I just did; its something never seen before. And of course there's the odd animation, originaly shot live then animated over. It has really interesting sci-fi aspects as well as good acting and some good comedy. Overall, I would say it was well worth the money, just not a favorite.

Rating: 9.0/10