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30 years ago, Hollywood was on the Internet. A lot of internet! Throughout the year, the form of bone madness in the computer and the Internet has reached films like Johnny is meand Networkand Infiltratorsand Strange daysAnd IngenuityWhich has just celebrated the thirtieth anniversary. “Celebration” may be very strong; while Network It was the only real blow between these films, Infiltrators I became a favorite of VHS, and Strange days He was appreciated as one of the best director Catherine Beglo. IngenuityOn the contrary, many partisans have not accumulated-although it seems that some defenders are appropriately, the Internet, as it is just the presence of the Washington DC and the younger-elderly Crowe, as well as an explosion of reduced energy, for more than a few “this chefs, in fact.”

But is it cooked, in fact? It is definitely the most cloud for Washington’s almost uninterrupted supplies from the police stirring, and mainly its own difference in Demolish. Parker Barnes, former in Los Angeles, plays a very future (think more about the cold Person 2) Who was imprisoned due to the accidental killing of journalists during the revenge of the terrorist who killed his family. (He also has a metal arm as a result of this incident, something that has not played his role strange after revealing it.) Barnes also acts as a test of a virtual reality training program that is bad to be a large bad of unsaturated airspace of hundreds of real life killers, called SID, embodied by a young man and Russians Rosel. Of course, SID eventually escapes its computerized borders, controls an artificial body (and regeneration), and goes into a fatal agitation. Barnes is fully pardoned to prevent it. Can you imagine that it may include the Sidman programming that killed Barnes’s wife and daughter?

DemolishA copy of this hypothesis – which was launched by a Badssa policeman to stop the killer with a huge width – with a sarcastic wink and liberal bent. Ingenuity He is Grimmer in each turn: the dead wife and the child, another child who was beaten to the climax, and a lot of bad murders by a master. It is one of those films that do not really contain movement devices where the characters fight or chase each other as much as the sequence of violence, as this point is all harm.

However, the film is not quite dangerous, because Crowe has a more enjoyable taste in playing this compound killer, and it wanders in a series of brightly colored suits as it looks for the city of Gotham to destroy it. Despite his derivative nature (one of his pillars was appointed “Survival”, which is the memory of 20 molds Saturday night fever Reference), SID quickly descends his own identity in the real world. It can be said that the idea of the most intelligent film is the lowest technique (or perhaps a second second technique, after terrorist acts): because SID is a creature of interaction, it wanders in attention, comments, and a kind of opponents or his teammate.

This is not particularly unusual for a crazy man in an exciting movie – Charlie Kaufman says in Adaptation“Watch every policeman ever for other examples of this” – but it gives the negative comments episode of the Internet, where bad actors say and sometimes do terrible things for strangers because of the dopamine beating. Being a bad person becomes influential. SID is also a form of artificial intelligence, although strange, but illogical simulation, we may recognize it from artificial intelligence today, does not usually enter science fiction films, as there is not much drama unless the character of artificial intelligence can become a kind of reliable life. In any case, the film does not care about AI; He puts himself more about virtual reality, although the clear threat is the same awareness, not his home.

Director Brett Leonard was actually an expert in Hollywood at the time, after he took a low budget strike Grass Five years ago. (He had another movie, Jeff Goldblum Tiriller Little cacheOutside 1995; 30th came and went without a park.) Ingenuity Recycle a little of Grass The pictures in the end, when Barnes briefly besieged inside the SID program as part of an attempt to return the killer to the digital “square”. But most of the film mixes live work with virtual world MatrixWhere abundant digital effects create more than augmented reality than one of these cheese Detection-Memochs layers.

Ingenuity Not good like MatrixOr Strange days. It may not be good like GrassAlthough it benefits strongly from the unusual Gravitas presence in Washington and Crowe in the villain. Good as they are, the stars and supported the dotted actors with actors with strong characters keep the film firmly in the world of police excitement; Minds cannot really bend or make anyone question the nature of reality. Science fiction is still struggling with how to deal with this technology today. Although overwhelming digital experiences and artificial intelligence are lower than the normal scenes than in 1995, this year (maybe prematurely) does not inspire the Internet fiction films associated with the Internet many filmmakers to connect these helmets again to find technology or warn that it is mainly used to chat to customer service and terrible imitation of cardiac arts. Even warning tales inspire a different kind of caution when a group of Tech Thillers Tank at the box office. Another thing Ingenuity He gets right, perhaps by mistake: We still use advanced technology to make the same stupid mistakes, in stories and in life.

Jesse Hasnager (RockMarooned)) He is a writer who lives in Brooklyn. He is a regular contributor to AV Club, Polygon and The Week, among others. It is PodCast in www.sportsalcohol.comalso.