"stranger pulls evil out of the greatest sinners in high-tech prison-aka-mental-hospital satellite"
Links: AFFF / imdb
With an opening line like "it teaches you not that dragons exist, but how to beat them", eyebrows went up. They better back that up, somehow. Stranger arrives. High-tech gizmos. Evil overseers, bickering among themselves. Big Brother (even in the future, security cams are black-and-white and suffer from low framerate). Stranger keeps eating fluorescent translucent seafood thingies right out of the bodies of his fellow inmates, changing them into benign beings at the same time. His final trick is the same, though with a whole planet instead of one murderous human being.
What follows is a film which repeats several shots and scenes without much development. A story or film doesn't have to make sense all of the time, but suggestions and hints were scattered hither and thither without any backup. The first three circles of Dante's "Inferno" were mentioned. Saint George. The Gates of Hell. They all failed to deliver the goods. The film provided amusing ingredients, but no lasting one.
Rating: 6
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