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| Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: October 13, 1995 |
Starring:
Angela Bassett, Brigitte Bako, Glenn Plummer, Juliette Lewis, Michael Wincott, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Edson, Tom Sizemore, Vincent D'Onofrio, William Fichtner
Summary:
A former cop turned street-hustler (Ralph Fiennes) accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.
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Bigelow's walk on the wired side isn't perfect, but she certainly grabs us by our voyeurism and yanks us into the head trip of the year. "Strange Days" is more than wired - it's loaded. [13 Oct 1995, p.37]
Strange Days - on and off screen - should be a lesson to filmmakers not to use virulent, touchy subjects for entertainment shortcuts. Bigelow has created a state-of-the-art movie machine, with all the moral and political complexity of an Etch-a-Sketch. [13 Oct 1995, p.10]
Not for a moment did I believe any of these characters. They were not as provocative as the clips Fiennes was selling, and, in a strange way, "Strange Days" is undone by the very product it condemns. [13 Oct 1995, p.B]
The movie is shot as if Bigelow wanted to take her audience to the very edge of sensory overload. Her pulsing, super-psychedelic images are edgy and invasive. They burn as they hit your retina. After a while, however, Bigelow's careening camera, the heavy-metal music and the flash cutting begin to make you feel hammered and abused. Though the movie is jammed with plot, nothing seems to happen. [13 Oct 1995, p.F01]
Jun 12, 2019
It's a masterpiece, her best movie, a true movie. It should have won Oscars!!!
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Apr 18, 2020
The story is good, the idea of dealing with memories is nice. But the characters are annoying, especially Nero: I dont enjoy to watch such loosers, especially when they are running behind women, its a behaviour from Teenies.
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