Virtual Revolution (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Guy-Roger Duvert
	Actors: Mike Dopud, Jane Badler, Jochen Hägele
	Country: F, USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 02.06.2017, Cine Santander Cultural, FANTASPOA2017
Synopsis: In Paris of the year 2047, like everywhere else, most people are connected, not going anymore outside in the real world. When 150 murders happens in the connected Verses, the global company targeted hires the detective Nash (Dopud).
Review: This French co-production seems ambitious on paper but like most such projects, it suffers from the French syndromes of being too verbose, over-explaining things, being half an hour too long, with too static shots and in the end stopping short of being ambitious enough. First of all why oh why setting the movie only 30 years from now? Paris will not look like out of Blade Runner in such a short time, when you know how long it takes to build some bicycle lines! However the movie may have well anticipated how connected we will become, we already are too much. And the story unfolds nicely, distilling its revelations and twists at the right moment until the very end, except for the most important one which is far too quickly expedited for me: SPOILER, highlight to read: the failed attempts at freeing all the connected. The special effects are not bad at all, and so is the atmosphere, but I was disturbed by a too theatrical acting, again influenced by the French school I guess. And as I said the pace is too slow and this 90-minute movie feels like two hours. There is an attempt at irony when a character says at the end of an interminable monologue: "Sorry for that long monologue, I hope it didn't bother you". Yes it did.
Rating: 4 /10