Yet another one of those movies that is simultaneously quite smart and quite dumb.
Charlie Brooker may have something to say about some of the smart bits (they’ve not only pinched a few of his ideas, but some of Black Mirror’s cast members as well) — and he won't be alone.
For this is also one of those mid-budget, detached IP releases that finds it needs to be lightly yet pervasively derivative across the board, as if aware that audiences now need constant twinges of the familiar in order to compensate for the absence of franchise.
These don't ever result in an experience that is simply dull or just shamelessly second hand or uninventive. It's fun, but has self-imposed limits.
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