A Scanner Darkly
 |
Directed by Richard LinklaterWriting credits (WGA) Philip K. Dick (novel) Richard Linklater (screenplay) |
Genre: Animation / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Rated R
100 minutes
 |
Keanu Reeves | …. | Bob Arctor |
Coming Soon!!
So, I have to adimit that I couldn’t really pay attention during this movie. I found myself thinking about what laundry needed to get done and that I should probably get our lunches ready. I don’t know what it was. Maybe it was the animation but it seemed like a movie that I should have liked.
There were quite a few funny exchanges between Robert Downy Jr.’s character, Jim Barris, and Woody Harrelson’s character referred to as Luckman. “You are constitutionally incapable of not shuttingthefuckup!” That one really got me! Other than that it just didn’t appeal to me…..sigh….
The film takes place around 2013 and America has lost the war on drugs. The new “It” drug is called Substance D. It is a super addictive psychotropic brain-damaging drug.
Bob Archer[Keeanu Reves character] leaves behind a normal life with his normal family and becomes an undercover narcotics officer that lives with two druggies, Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson. His identity is even kept secret from his superiors through the means of a scrambling suit that continually blend the faces and bodies of thousands of people. After becoming addicted to D he begins to experience the irreversable effects like schizophrenia. His life and sense of reality are spinning out of control.
Keeanu, like always, is just OK.
My husband “liked it well enough”
