Engaging, genuinely thrilling sci-fi. Enough to make you wish Bigelow made a movie a year.
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07/01/05
Strange Days (1995)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:21
Rotten:15
Average Rating:6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 25 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: It is 1999, and urban society is little more than a vast wasteland of anarchic violence. Seedy, burnt-out ex-cop Lenny Nero caters to the sensation-seeking citizens by dealing in "clips": virtual... [More]
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Reviews for Strange Days
A successful story of mystery and lost love with a sci-fi twist.
01/01/00
The early promise of the film gives way to exploitation; satire mutates into drivel.
01/01/00
What a kick -- Strange Days is an action movie with real characters and uncommonly skillful actors.
01/01/00
Ralph Fiennes is the perfect sleazebag, while Angela Bassett and Juliette Lewis provide good support.
08/16/01
Top CriticAfter awhile Strange Days becomes merely a predictable parade of senses-assaulting indignities with a surprisingly conventional, by-the-numbers story.
01/01/00
Little more than two-and-a-half hours of enjoyable action, futuristic gadgetry and characters perennially on the brink of being compelling.
01/01/00
The end result is an interesting little film that's just, well, 'strange.'
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02/09/06
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12/04/02
Bigelow is so enamored of high-tech thrills, and so mesmerized by the violence she seeks to condemn, that her efforts at 11th-hour moralizing seem limp and halfhearted.
01/01/00
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04/17/02
Set in LA at the end of the century, this morality tales showed again the main problem in the director's work: The great divide between simlistic plots and technical sophistication. Even so, it's one of a kind for its use of color, sound and motion
12/02/06
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01/30/05
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01/01/00
It's big, explosive entertainment and, although not directed by Cameron, is very much in the vein we've come to expect from him.
01/01/00
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02/27/01
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