2 Comments for Skyggen

• 1. Zhen  |  July 19th, 2010 at 6:02 pm

  This review is from: Skyggen [VHS] (VHS Tape)

  I don’t know how many times I saw this in the video store, snickered at it with my computer-savy friends because of the ridiculous title, and passed it by. A few days ago however, I was in the mood for some cheesy Sci-Fi and thought, “Why not?” Boy was I shocked.

  The synopsis on the back of the video is as bad as the title, but for a foreign film, dubbed into english, this can be excused. I don’t know what to say except I really, really enjoyed this film! The plot was simple but gripping, the costuming was excellent, and the technology very believable. You won’t see Joe Shmo flying through cyberspace “hacking a Gibsin” on his Apple Computer with a 28.8k modem here. Only the military (and our fearless hero) are allowed Terrabit connections to the internet, and even then, the tastefully few glimpses we get of “cyberspace” barely look different than ordinary VRML technology of today. Techno-music, bounty hunters, an underground SNM club, evil psychotic gang leaders, a little gore here and there, and a very hard-core cyberpunk feel make this movie a sure cult classic.

  I didn’t give the movie a 5 because only the greatest movies deserve those. This movie gets a 4 because it’s fun, intelligent, and the kind of movie I could watch over and over.

• 2. Rusti  |  July 19th, 2010 at 7:15 pm

  This review is from: Webmaster (DVD)

  Poor acting, an awful dubbing job, dull direction, a lame predictable plot, a really terrible script that contains long out of place bondage sex scenes that weren’t erotic, meaningful, or anything but an excuse to have bondage sex scenes in this film.

  This is all combined in a film that takes itself way too seriously, even though its cutting edge “cyberworld” looks like a computer graphics program from the early 90s.

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