>> Had my doubts about this film just based on the trailers, <<
So did I, but once she started kicking ass I wanted to see that part.
>> because it looked like a sci-fi action flick with dubious pseudo-science and gratuitous hot female tacked on to boost audience numbers. <<
It does have a layer of cheese on top, but there's good meat underneath. Just take the psuedoscience as a symbol for a bunch of sophisticated concepts that wouldn't fit into a movie unmodified. Given your shamanic interests, I suspect you'll enjoy all the meta.
>> Apparently not the case then... adding this one to the pile of films to watch. <<
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Date: 2014-08-01 05:41 pm (UTC)So did I, but once she started kicking ass I wanted to see that part.
>> because it looked like a sci-fi action flick with dubious pseudo-science and gratuitous hot female tacked on to boost audience numbers. <<
It does have a layer of cheese on top, but there's good meat underneath. Just take the psuedoscience as a symbol for a bunch of sophisticated concepts that wouldn't fit into a movie unmodified. Given your shamanic interests, I suspect you'll enjoy all the meta.
>> Apparently not the case then... adding this one to the pile of films to watch. <<
Yay!