‘Destabilizing the bar codes’ is a shorthand way of describing it without giving away the nifty secret of what specifically they were doing. Not sure how I’d even have that bit of info without seeing the movie, but whatever. Again, thanks for clearing that up.

I wasn’t saying those scenes were identical, but rather they do have the same sort of purpose in the plot, just as Cruise getting his retnas removed in Minority Report does. I’m not going to suggest that they are point for point, just noticing similarities.

I’m not sure you have actually seen Repo: The Genetic Opera. I have, and the basic tenant of the plot is the same–a company creates artificial organs, sets up payment plans for people who want them, and sends a viscious Repo man after them to collect. Yes, it’s a musical, and the thrust of the narrative is different. The resulting world, despite the kitschy trash look of Repo, is quite similar. It’s hardly the name similarity. Besides, Repo Men, when it was in script form, was called Repossession Mambo, which was far more distinguishable from Cox’s film and Repo: The Genetic Opera.

The Matrix comparison isn’t about how the scene is shot, but just pointing out that it comes down to a small group against a mass system. Again, Minority Report wasn’t like this, but Equilibrium was.

I could give you a scene by scene recap to prove I saw it, but that’s not the purpose of the review. I stick by my original assessment; it’s quite a fun movie, but nothing terribly original.

I’m sure you can at least agree upon that.

In the movie as long as you are paying monthly installments you’re fine because they got you hooked on so many interest fees you’re like a walking talking ATM hooked up with their goods. So it’s not 3 months or the plug is pulled.

The fight scenes and storming of the HQ is nothing like the Matrix by any stretch of the imagination unless you’re comparing all fight scenes in all movies to that of the matrix.

In a world where there are literally tons of movies its difficult to find a name for one that hasn’t already been used before so saying that it appropriated it is a bit pretentious as is claiming they took the whole plot from “The Genetic Opera.” When in reality they took choice bits and pieces and surgically added their own parts.

The sequence where they ‘open each other up’ isn’t to destabilize the bar codes but to make it seem as if their debts and therefore their accounts are no longer in the system so that they couldn’t be hunted which is a far cry from what happened in both AI and existenZ.

There are at least a dozen other things that are akin to gaping plot holes with your review. I’d recommend watching the movie next time before deciding to do a review on it.

His SNL sucked as well.

Like its got a bunch of ideas stolen from 100 other movies but its well done and well acted, and enough of its own thing to not just be a complete copy.