A SCANNER DARKLY [2006] review

January 14, 2007 · Print This Article

I continue to get caught up on movies from 2006. Tonight it was A SCANNER DARKLY, but perhaps my favorite director, Richard Linklater, for sure my favorite personal director. I guess overall I’d have to go with Hitchcock. Yet, SCANNER was the first Linklater movie i ever saw that I did not like, and not until the last third of the movie did it even salvage itself at all. I even contemplated stopping the movie!

I do not like movies about drugs. Can’t stand them actually. Who wants to see that? I was hoping this movie wouldn’t be too much into the drug scene, but it was. And somehow Woody Harrelson has become the scariest person on the planet over the past 5 years.

Keanu and Winona are two of my favorite actors, so at least I got to hear their voices and through rotoscoping see Winona’s breeests again. And the twists that came out in the story at the end of the film added something, although I think most viewers wouldn’t be surprised by all of them.

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