Ningen Shikaku |
Japan • 2019 • 121m •
   • Directed by: Fuminori Kizaki. • Starring: Mamoru Miyano, Kana Hanazawa, Takahiro Sakurai, Jun Fukuyama, Kenichirou Matsuda, Haruka Chisuga, Macy Anne Johnson, Rikiya Koyama, Miyuki Sawashiro..    Tokyo, 2036: a revolution in medical treatment has conquered death guaranteeing a 120-year lifespan free from illness. Yet this warps the Japanese nation in a host of ways: unresolved economic disparities, ethical decadence resulting from deathlessness, grave environmental pollution, and the ''Human Lost'' phenomenon, in which people themselves, disconnected from the S.H.E.L.L. network, become malformed. Japan teeters wildly between two potential futures: civilization's restoration or its destruction.
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What is particularly disappointing is how quickly the plot---almost generic, but still thought-provoking and realistic in and of itself (that of a future society of people embracing possible immortality at the expense of their humanity)---devolves into B-movie schlock.
Apparently, all citizens endowed with nanotechnology designed to repair all physical ills and keep their host in peak condition, are at risk of becoming lost: to make a painfully long, convoluted and utterly farcical pseudoscience explanation short, inhuman, tentacled monsters. I guess when writers get stuck in a rut, or smoke too much weed, cue pointless monsters.
On top of this mess, we have the usual cast of grim soldiers, self-centered elitists in a predictable walled city and protected by their private security teams, a devilishly handsome, but predictably mad scientist replete with requisite round spectacles, obsessed with bringing down the system via whatever twisted methods are at his disposal (monsters), and a laughable psychic girl in some sort of outfit reminiscent of bad cosplay and a beret, a protagonist with absolutely nothing to make you care about him and who of course becomes a monster almost at will to fight bad guy monsters, and plenty of technobabble, and you have Human Lost.
Review by mrsatyre from the Internet Movie Database.
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