The only reason this movie exists is to keep Cronenberg's career alive ... Who could have thought anyone would give a damn about any of the characters involved this farce ... Mortensen does what he can with a role of an idiot ... It wants to be William Boroughs for the 21st century and ends up being a carry on film with no humour ... The rest of the cast may have been planks of wood ... Its all just dark and gloomy and VACUOUS ... Its "points" ( if indeed it had any ) do not get communicated in any way ... Like all these older directors of cult films ( don't misunderstand me, I am nearly as old ) they are living on past glory and this is an ideal example, even though I would never have rated Cronenberg as a particularly good director, just challenging ... And this isn't even that.
Review of Crimes of the Future
