Fantastic for the very young – superficial and unengaging for anyone else.
Science Fiction
Wonderful Days
Dazzling 2D animation and 3D backgrounds – but the plot and characters are strictly one-dimensional.
War of the Worlds
Spielberg's second holocaust survival feature is an unexpectedly subversive Wells adaptation that puts extreme human behaviour under the microscope.
eXistenZ
David Cronenbergs delve into a grimy video game world has lots of plus points, but isnt quite as good as it should be. Stick to Super Mario.
Dark City
Creepy baldies from space and lots of sad faces bring a new meaning to the term city break in this marvellously shady piece of sci-fi.
Tanin no kao
Trauma, identity and metamorphosis in the land of the rising sun (and the falling bomb).