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** Creator/RaulJulia's talent as a an actor is well spoken-for, but there is one moment where Fingal is confused that the door lock in his simulated apartment won't let him leave and Raul gives a bizarre line read where he barks out the word "''What!''" in a way that doesn't remotely quizzical or interrogative.
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* UnintentionalUnsympathetic: We are clearly met to feel bad for Fingal, since he ends up trapped in a computer simulation for [[YearInsideHourOut what seems like months from his perspective.]] However, his attempts to hack into the HX-386 and escape end up causing a bunch of weather disturbances (and likely killing people), and Apollonia even warns him that his hacking attempts could have a bad effect on the real world beforehand, so he comes across as more of a DirtyCoward than anything.
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* UnintentionalUnsympathetic: UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: We are clearly met to feel bad for Fingal, since he ends up trapped in a computer simulation for [[YearInsideHourOut [[YearInsideHourOutside what seems like months from his perspective.]] However, his attempts to hack into the HX-386 and escape end up causing a bunch of weather disturbances (and likely killing people), and Apollonia even warns him that his hacking attempts could have a bad effect on the real world beforehand, so he comes across as more of a DirtyCoward than anything.
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* UnintentionalUnsympathetic: We are clearly met to feel bad for Fingal, since he ends up trapped in a computer simulation for [[YearInsideHourOut what seems like months from his perspective.]] However, his attempts to hack into the HX-386 and escape end up causing a bunch of weather disturbances (and likely killing people), and Apollonia even warns him that his hacking attempts could have a bad effect on the real world beforehand, so he comes across as more of a DirtyCoward than anything.
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** The scene where Apollonia appears as Venus and gives Fingal the commandments is really bizarre and funny. For one, the "stone" tablets containing the commandments are [[SpecialEffectsFailure obviously made of styrofoam.]] For another, Apollonia talks in a [[SophisticatedAsHell odd combination of colloquial and extremely formal archaic language,]] e.g one of the commandments is "Thou shalt not screw around with things thou doth not understand", which is written verbatim on the tablets. Even the actress looks like she's [[{{Corpsing}} having trouble keeping a straight face.]]
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Djamilla being TheMole for Lexicorp helps kick the plot off, but no one ever finds out, she stays to assist Apollonia throughout the whole movie, and it's otherwise never relevant to the plot.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: {{Squick}}:
** Fingle's brain being left exposed, in an open room with other patients, where they let ''little children'' tour through with only the staffs' admonishments to protect the patients from children wiping their mustard-stained hands on their brain tissue.
** The one unsettlingly horny ''pre-teen'' who fondles a patient's breasts, then asks if where that patient is going is "sexy".
** The dopple process itself has some [[BestialityIsDepraved disturbing implications]] that go mercifully unexplored.
** In-universe, this is possibly the reason for the odd disdain towards anteaters; the idea of being stuck in the mind of an animal that subsists entirely on something unappetizing to humans is likely the reason characters treat getting doppled into one as the worst possible outcome.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** Djamilla being TheMole for Lexicorp helps kick the plot off, but no one ever finds out, she stays to assist Apollonia throughout the whole movie, and it's otherwise never relevant to theplot.plot.
** The concept of mandatory rehab by having one's mind ride shotgun in a wild animal's, with a severe class divide on who gets to possess what, is a ''bizarre'' enough concept that could have carried its own story, and is the entire driving point of the first act. But as soon as Fingle has to abort his time as a baboon only for his body to have gone missing, it ends up feeling like little more than a convoluted excuse to set up a story about a human mind transferred into a computer simulation.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: Apollonia showing up as Venus and reading Fingle the riot act on how he should stop fooling around with the simulation and just wait for his body to be recovered is treated by both Fingle ''and'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Apollonia herself]] as her having gone to far. Given the amount of damage Fingle's meddling had been causing to weather across the globe and his constant brushing off her warnings, it's hard not to see it as at worst a playful reminder of how serious the situation was.
** Fingle's brain being left exposed, in an open room with other patients, where they let ''little children'' tour through with only the staffs' admonishments to protect the patients from children wiping their mustard-stained hands on their brain tissue.
** The one unsettlingly horny ''pre-teen'' who fondles a patient's breasts, then asks if where that patient is going is "sexy".
** The dopple process itself has some [[BestialityIsDepraved disturbing implications]] that go mercifully unexplored.
** In-universe, this is possibly the reason for the odd disdain towards anteaters; the idea of being stuck in the mind of an animal that subsists entirely on something unappetizing to humans is likely the reason characters treat getting doppled into one as the worst possible outcome.
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** Djamilla being TheMole for Lexicorp helps kick the plot off, but no one ever finds out, she stays to assist Apollonia throughout the whole movie, and it's otherwise never relevant to the
** The concept of mandatory rehab by having one's mind ride shotgun in a wild animal's, with a severe class divide on who gets to possess what, is a ''bizarre'' enough concept that could have carried its own story, and is the entire driving point of the first act. But as soon as Fingle has to abort his time as a baboon only for his body to have gone missing, it ends up feeling like little more than a convoluted excuse to set up a story about a human mind transferred into a computer simulation.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: Apollonia showing up as Venus and reading Fingle the riot act on how he should stop fooling around with the simulation and just wait for his body to be recovered is treated by both Fingle ''and'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Apollonia herself]] as her having gone to far. Given the amount of damage Fingle's meddling had been causing to weather across the globe and his constant brushing off her warnings, it's hard not to see it as at worst a playful reminder of how serious the situation was.
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** Also, their idea of disciplining a worker who's slacking off on the job? Mandatory vacation time.
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About unused not poorly used plots.
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** The short story was pretty good and definitely could have made for the basis of a good movie. Unfortunately, because it wasn't long enough to adapt directly into a feature-length movie, the good aspects of the short story end up being buried under the {{padding}} and sub-plots added to this version.
** Djamilla being TheMole for Lexicorp helps kick the plot off, but no one ever finds out, she stays to assist Apollonia throughout the whole movie, and it's otherwise never relevant to the plot.
** The short story was pretty good and definitely could have made for the basis of a good movie. Unfortunately, because it wasn't long enough to adapt directly into a feature-length movie, the good aspects of the short story end up being buried under the {{padding}} and sub-plots added to this version.
** Djamilla being TheMole for Lexicorp helps kick the plot off, but no one ever finds out, she stays to assist Apollonia throughout the whole movie, and it's otherwise never relevant to the plot.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** The short story was pretty good and definitely could have made for the basis of a good movie. Unfortunately, because it wasn't long enough to adapt directly into a feature-length movie, the good aspects of the short story end up being buried under the {{padding}} and sub-plots added to this version.
**TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Djamilla being TheMole for Lexicorp helps kick the plot off, but no one ever finds out, she stays to assist Apollonia throughout the whole movie, and it's otherwise never relevant to the plot.
** The short story was pretty good and definitely could have made for the basis of a good movie. Unfortunately, because it wasn't long enough to adapt directly into a feature-length movie, the good aspects of the short story end up being buried under the {{padding}} and sub-plots added to this version.
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* AcceptableTargets: Anteaters?
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** The constant repetition of the words "Fingal" and "dopple".
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Tooby the computech is played by a young Creator/GaryFarmer.
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* HamAndCheese: It might have been the first time Raul turned in an enjoyably hammy performance in a movie far beneath his talents, and it [[Film/TheAddamsFamily certainly wouldn't]] [[Film/StreetFighter be the last]].
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* HamAndCheese: It might have been the first time Raul turned in an enjoyably hammy performance in a movie far beneath his talents, and it talents. Happily, [[Film/TheAddamsFamily certainly wouldn't]] more wonderfully hammy performances]] [[Film/StreetFighter be the last]].would follow]].
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The film was designed to showcase then-cutting-edge video effects. However, it unwittingly demonstrates the problem of trying to showcase a nascent technology in this manner, as the effects look laughably cheap nowadays, and are far surpassed even by the visual effects in the host segments of its ''[=MST3K=]'' episode, despite it being produced on a fraction of the budget of the actual movie.
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* {{Narm}}: Too many things to choose from, though the one thing that sticks out is this movie's hatred of anteaters.
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** Too many things to choose from, though the one thing that sticks out is this movie's hatred of anteaters.
** Too many things to choose from, though the one thing that sticks out is this movie's hatred of anteaters.
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** When reviewing the ApocalypticLog of a previous tech who got his mind sucked in an experiment, Apollonia says that the woman giving said log was "going too fast". Considering that the woman in question is actually delivering her lines in a very slow, halting manner, it ends up unwittingly painting an unflattering image of Apollonia's level of intelligence.
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** The short story was pretty good and definitely could have made for the basis of a goodmovie.movie. Unfortunately, because it wasn't long enough to adapt directly into a feature-length movie, the good aspects of the short story end up being buried under the {{padding}} and sub-plots added to this version.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Thanks to advances in technology, "scrolling up cinemas" is now a big problem in offices.
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** Thanks to advances in technology, "scrolling up cinemas" is now a big problem inoffices.offices.
** One of the [[MegaCorp Mega-Corps]] is one letter away from [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Lexcorp]].
** Thanks to advances in technology, "scrolling up cinemas" is now a big problem in
** One of the [[MegaCorp Mega-Corps]] is one letter away from [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Lexcorp]].
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It was discussed beforehand that she has to somehow tell Fingal to cut it out, and she chose to appeal to him that way.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The scene where Apollonia [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext pretends to be Venus and gives Fingal the stone tablets]]
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** The constant repetition of the names "Fingal" and "dopple".
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We know exactly what happened to it, it was with the other Dopplers because they had Fingal's tag.
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* FridgeHorror: When Fingal's body is eventually found, Djamilla off-handedly remarks that he was mistakenly next in line for a sex-change operation. Considering that his body tag was stolen and switched with someone else's, whatever happened to the ''actual'' owner of that sex-change tag that we see in the beginning of the film?
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** Djamilla being TheMole for Lexicorp helps kick the plot off, but no one ever finds out, she stays to assist Apollonia throughout the whole movie, and its otherwise never relevant to the plot.
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** Djamilla being TheMole for Lexicorp helps kick the plot off, but no one ever finds out, she stays to assist Apollonia throughout the whole movie, and its it's otherwise never relevant to the plot.
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** Djamilla being TheMole for Lexicorp helps kick the plot off, but no one ever finds out, she stays to assist Apollonia throughout the whole movie, and its otherwise never relevant to the plot.
