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Valeria O I would rather sleep than watch this movie. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 11/04/24 Full Review Audience Member I am not a big fan of Mexican movies. But this one passed my time. Other than few cheesy special effects and illogical story line, it worth to watch. It will pass your time. That's all. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Considering that it came out long before America's recent hard right turn toward nativism, the film is a searing and uncannily prescient indictment of US-Mexico relations, from exploitation of poor laborers to inhospitality at the border. Filmed on the sparsest of budgets, the resulting austere aesthetic aptly mirrors the desolation of both the Oaxacan landscape and the prospects of its impoverished inhabitants, while in turn proving that really great science fiction relies on philosophical ideas, not special effects or rigorous technological authenticity. Yet while the financial constraints may have resulted in rather unrealistic visuals, the simplicity of the production provides a portentious vision of deeper socio-economic truths, recognizing well ahead of public consciousness (at least within the US and Hollywood) the looming menace of water scarcity, ecoterrorists, outsourced labor thanks to the technology, precariousness at the southern border—including the threat of its closing and the building of a wall that looks more like an ineffective fence—the use of drones to serve the imperialist interest of capitalism, cheered on by jingoistic media, and so on. This dystopian prophecy is disturbing not because of what seems strange, like the surreal sequences of workers jacked-in to their machinery, making love and buildings with wires extending in and out of their erogenous nodes like a McLuhanite nightmare (or better still: McLuhanightmare), but because, barely a decade later, it all seems so familiar. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I at first was not willing to watch it but then I saw who the main actor was and I honestly like his work. When I saw it, of course the low budget cgi or animations were just out of place but it still helps with the story. If only the film was remade or made in a more recent year where better tech then those fails could be opposite. Otherwise this was a really good film, original indeed. Wished I was part of the crew! :D Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member A dystopian future that is the dream of some GOP politics in USA. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member It's basically The Matrix. Memo and Neo. Come on, even I could have been more creative. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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