SLEEP DEALER reviews roundup
Friday, April 17, 2009
The new sci-fi indie Sleep Dealer has been attracting a lot of buzz, but as it arrives in theaters the reviews are generally good but less than spectacular.
The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan loved the film. "Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, Sleep Dealer is a welcome surprise. It combines visually arresting science fiction done on a budget with a strong sense of social commentary in a way that few films attempt, let alone achieve."
But so far the majority of reviews suggest Sleep Dealer is interesting but flawed. The New York Post's Lou Lumenick writes that the film is "far more worth seeing than most of what's out there," which isn't exactly a rave. The New York Times' A.O. Scott writes, "The plot of Sleep Dealer is a bit thin, and the performances are earnest and dutiful. But there is sufficient ingenuity in the film’s main ideas to hold your attention, and the political implications of the allegorical story are at once obvious and subtle." And Variety's Justin Chang says that "Despite some clever virtual-reality concepts and projections about the next frontier of globalization, Alex Rivera's ambitious directing debut lacks the vision, or the budget, to pull off its fusion of sci-fi and aspirational saga."
The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan loved the film. "Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, Sleep Dealer is a welcome surprise. It combines visually arresting science fiction done on a budget with a strong sense of social commentary in a way that few films attempt, let alone achieve."
But so far the majority of reviews suggest Sleep Dealer is interesting but flawed. The New York Post's Lou Lumenick writes that the film is "far more worth seeing than most of what's out there," which isn't exactly a rave. The New York Times' A.O. Scott writes, "The plot of Sleep Dealer is a bit thin, and the performances are earnest and dutiful. But there is sufficient ingenuity in the film’s main ideas to hold your attention, and the political implications of the allegorical story are at once obvious and subtle." And Variety's Justin Chang says that "Despite some clever virtual-reality concepts and projections about the next frontier of globalization, Alex Rivera's ambitious directing debut lacks the vision, or the budget, to pull off its fusion of sci-fi and aspirational saga."
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