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Best movie ever!

Absolutely the worst movie.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Has it ever happened to you to spend days while you are trying to get a certain information or a document? The office rats send you from one office to another ("Sure, ask my colleague from room 867 on the 16th floor"), you spend hours on the phone, then from one building to the opposite side of town ("Yes, we are open on Tuesday from 16.00 till 18.00 and on Thursday from 10.00 till 12.00"), and days pass and you feel being sucked in some insane surreal bureaucratic vortex. I experienced it more than once and - while I hope it didn't happen do you - I bet you went through this too.For a low budget sci-fi flick it does a smart move - the film captures you straight from the first frames due to a very unusual texture - sinister camera angles, eerie close-ups and noir-like lightning aren't just guests here. You're their guest.The colour solutions of "Version 1.0" remind me of an amazing robot horror movie by Richard Stanley, "Hardware" with its dominant dirty yellow and red shades. By the way, if you loved that robot horror dystopian film, you'd definitely enjoy "Version 1.0". The monotone decay atmosphere is present in both.The cast deserves a special mention. Jeremy Sisto and Deborah Unger in the main roles were perfect, not some outstanding performances, but the film's secondary characters really gave it a particular savour. Lance Henriksen (Bishop in "Aliens", Alien 3"), Bruce Payne ("Passenger 57", "Necronomicon"), Udo Kier (secondary roles in "Suspiria", "Blade", "Armageddon", "Dogville", "Grindhouse") - all these guys are amazing character actors, but I particularly loved Lance Henriksen's role as basement dwelling bum. "Version 1.0" is a hypnotizing surreal cyberpunk brilliantly portraying monotone paranoid decay, woven of many elements like Dadaism, Kafka, Lynch, Cronenberg, noir, surrealism, consumerism, corporations, depression, sex addictions and, finally, turns up to be a very satisfying science fiction. I would love to watch it again and it's the best compliment a movie can receive. For any science fiction fan I'd surely say it's a must-see.

Paranoia 1.0 portrayed a not-so-distant future of isolation and corruption. Our protagonist - Simon J - suffers from the very beginning and his deteriorating state grows exponentially by the end. There is a clever gimmick behind his "sickness" which I can agree to be plausible.This cinematic adventure's strengths are not in the casting, but in a grim atmosphere that entices the viewer with a special peek into the world of a paranoid being. This is done exceedingly well and I give much respect to the set designers. Overall, 1.0 is a look into what corporate power may one day be able to exact upon the masses, in ever evolving, technologically proficient world.

Maybe just another conspiracy theory movie, this one is particularly special, because would be the first one to deal with publicity and marketing issues. I study communication and the theories the movie presents are no crazier or more neurotic than Baudrillard's, who is considered one of the communication post-modernist masters. Brainwashing is an old topic? Perhaps, but having the possibility of giving wings to our own doubts on how much visual propaganda and subliminal ads lead us, is quite interesting. Maybe it is not so surreal if you really go beyond the lack of story and holes in the plot. Catch the overview criticism the movies makes and we'll realize the facts which the film brings are not that impossible, or they won't exist only in the future. Minimize and rationalize their paranoia, get the symbolisms and metaphors and maybe the movie is based on the real media. Interesting movie. Don't take it literally though, otherwise it will obviously be another paranoia movie and nothing else.

I think this is quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. I kept watching waiting for a plot, my husband and I both missed a possible plot. So many things are left unanswered!! I feel like I just woke up from a bad dream and now I'll spend the rest of my evening confused and trying to figure it out. I don't even know if I can tell you what the movie was about I'm so confused but I'll tell you what I know. This guy is in this apartment building where no one acts normal at all. The neighbors are strange, and even the guy at the grocery store is strange. He pays high prices for small items at the grocery store....which is odd, who pays 90 bucks for a gallon of milk? He is trying to figure out what is going on around him and then comes this pretty lame explanation and a very strange ending to the movie. As you are still waiting for them to answer so many questions that have been brought up by the attempt at a plot.....the movie ends...we actually had to check the chapters left on the DVD to see if that was REALLY the end!!!I wouldn't waste my time with this film unless you like "fill in the blank" movies!