Teknolust. I guess the title says it all. This movie contains no substance whatsoever. Everything is stylish and tech just for the sake of it, with no real purpose. And the movie tries desperately to sustain itself by exploring this lust for hi-tech and a pseudo-futuristic design. There are nice sets, though, and the use of strong, basic colors is interesting and hardly unnoticeable. But everything else is void. The movie is deprived of a strong premise, a decent storyline and interesting ideas. Every theme present in TEKNOLUST was already debated in several other movies: cyborg questioning his nature and trying to turn human; human falling for cyborg; the dangers of genetic manipulation and cloning; and so on.
I'll not bother criticizing the absurd computer-related technicalities because that becomes unimportant when compared to the flawed and unstructured plot. If there isn't a good plot, a strong dilemma, it's hard for us to become attached to the movie. TEKNOLUST suffers from this problem, and I couldn't care more about what was going on. If it weren't for three plus one Tilda Swintons, I'd probably never had reached the end of the film. Even though, the movie is slow and uninteresting. The deficient plot translates in lack of cinematic rhythm. It's boring. Luckily, TEKNOLUST runs for no more than 80 minutes.
Not everything is awful, as you might expect. Apart from the nice use of colors, be it on the sets or in the wigs and costumes, there is some kind of wittiness in the tone of the movie that keeps us from leaving the theatre. Nevertheless, what ultimately saves this movie from being a total disaster is the glamorous Tilda Swinton.
I'll not bother criticizing the absurd computer-related technicalities because that becomes unimportant when compared to the flawed and unstructured plot. If there isn't a good plot, a strong dilemma, it's hard for us to become attached to the movie. TEKNOLUST suffers from this problem, and I couldn't care more about what was going on. If it weren't for three plus one Tilda Swintons, I'd probably never had reached the end of the film. Even though, the movie is slow and uninteresting. The deficient plot translates in lack of cinematic rhythm. It's boring. Luckily, TEKNOLUST runs for no more than 80 minutes.
Not everything is awful, as you might expect. Apart from the nice use of colors, be it on the sets or in the wigs and costumes, there is some kind of wittiness in the tone of the movie that keeps us from leaving the theatre. Nevertheless, what ultimately saves this movie from being a total disaster is the glamorous Tilda Swinton.