The concept was interesting but they didn't follow through with it. I was a bit disappointed.

A cross between Trainspotting and The Matrix, with more pill choices beyond the usual red and blue. Visually stylish and with great work by the leads, this is a good movie that ends on a high.

I initially watched this because it was labeled as science fiction. It's not science fiction. Not even remotely. It's a movie about a guy that gets fired and becomes homeless and is befriended by a woman who then does, presumably, crystal meth with him. Once you realize that you're watching a movie about how drug addicts supposedly see the world and themselves in that world it takes you for a completely different ride. The movie itself is not bad, not at all. But it's not even remotely what the trailer or marketing material made it out to be.

Well, don't do drugs!

problem = the vr world is dirty grimy crap that no one wants to be in or look at on-screen, and they spend at least half the movie there

Stupid movie waste of time unless your on drugs.

Well that was weird. I was hooked at the beginning, it looked promising but kind of trailed off with no definitive answers to anything. I found it captivating in parts and quite boring in others which left me feeling meh. So much potential with concept, narrative, characters and acting but felt like it was cut together all wrong.

I think the main flaw of the movie is that it asks too much out of the viewer. You need to have an extensive knowledge of how delusions form and how drug addicts behave and rationalize, in order to follow the characters and not tune out because of the absurdism. THIS IS NOT A SCI-FI FILM.

It's clear from start to end that the movie is about drug addiction and drug-induced psychosis. His prescription bottle read Hydrocodone, an opioid used for pain relief. On the phone he talked to his daughter about his fake injuries. He crushed his last two pills and snorted them off-screen before leaving his office. Isabel slips him something in his drink when they first meet, that's when his bender begins (along with the "powers"). From then on, Isabel and Greg seem to experience a drug-induced shared psychosis (aka folie à deux).

One way that could explain the "glitches in the Matrix" is if we assume that the audience is not an objective observer but either a third party in this shared psychosis or simply an extension of Greg's deluded imagination.

This movie is not a sci-fi... This is a movie about drugs and addiction. The way it shows the road down is unique. Drug like diamonds, or shiny precious pills are the reality for those addicted to it. I think it is a great movie but do not sit down to watch it expecting a sci-fi or an action movie.

Well I can tell you one thing, I feel like I took a pill and don't know anymore which world I'm in. This movie really plays with your mind.

Wow. Definitely an interesting way to characterize the blurred realities caused by addiction. Great film!

As an audience member I hate it when they don’t wrap things up for us ~ especially in mind altering or crazy films. I think it’s just lazy writing to not have a definitive ending.

I really don't know what to think. I don't like either world or either choice of life very much. The utopia isn't and the bliss isn't either.

This movie makes me WANT to have a mental break. It makes me WANT to become a homeless bum that yells at clouds. To have my life and everything in it fall apart to the point my sanity nopes out and I go in to a dellusion. It looks so enticing, when viewed as this movie portrays it.