A strangely exhilarating and mesmerizing experience as it breaks new ground in the never-ending technological revolution.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 30, 2024

The storytelling here is inane, but the first major release to highlight a complete cast of computer-generated characters is a breakthrough of ominous proportions.

| Original Score: C | Apr 30, 2024

A thuddingly joyless experience that feels twice as long, with a leaden pace, an awful script & phoned in performances.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 16, 2021

In two, three years, this movie will look as clunky as The Jazz Singer did by the early Thirties. But it will remain a crucial document in cinematic evolution, a pioneer cyberflick, a film without a single real actor.

| Jan 29, 2018

A film that is worth rediscovering so many years after its premiere - you might have a pleasant surprise. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2016

In all its beautiful spectacle and skin-crawling ugliness, it is very much something that should be at least sampled, just for a taste of it.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 27, 2015

First computer animated movie to "star" actors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2010

I never stopped marveling at the thousands of individually delineated pores and hair strands of the heroine, but the thin story covering her acquisition of one wave after another while narrowly escaping death time and again is strictly for player one.

| Apr 12, 2010

It's possible that the effect might be different if this were not a soggy, derivative SF movie and we had more to engage and divert us.

| Apr 12, 2010

Despite the utterly amazing animation and exciting action, this is nothing like its source material and is very disappointing in the end.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2009

This bigscreen adaptation of the long-popular interactive computer game is visually impressive if not dramatically cool, and is marked by "acting" that is no worse than that found in the majority of sci-fi films.

Full Review | Sep 9, 2008

It's a paradox--it's at once exhilarating yet exhausting, thrilling yet boring, masterful yet banal.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 19, 2007

From a strictly visual standpoint, the film is like nothing you've ever seen. In terms of story, however, you've seen it all before.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

The often-confusing plot and shallow characters are all the more disappointing when contrasted to the film's sheer artistry.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 4, 2006

The human figure, however, remains a challenge to current CGI technology, since the detailing of hair and freckles, for instance, proves rather more credible than the marionette-like impression created by cold eyes and oddly unconvincing body movements.

| Jan 26, 2006

The story is well written and incredibly smart, but probably a bit too spiritual for western audiences.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 31, 2005

Even in the world of the digitally perfect, a black man seems doomed to be a disposable sidekick, and the heroine must represent every feminist ideal at once.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jan 15, 2005

It's all very complicated and makes one lose interest quickly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 7, 2003

All the amazing visual effects of this film couldn't save it from lame dialogue recited more stiffly than any other animated film in recent memory (couldn't they get the characters' mouths to move just a little?).

| Oct 10, 2003

A lot of painstaking work went into this . . . Unfortunately, the main story becomes nearly incomprehensible . . . and the last ten minutes or so just feel like drudgery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2003