I felt the finale was a bit anticlimactic, and it drags a little in the middle, (I'd say 10 minutes edited out in total from different scenes throughout would have tightened the pacing just the right amount) but I found the film refreshingly different, and I was laughing early and often, as intended. It's still French Sci-fi, with its bizarrely manic-quriky-weird trademarks, but it's Science Fiction in the way that most "sci-fi" cinema isn't, in that it's focused on the speculative and satirical aspect over the "action film with science fiction window dressing" standard, of most any Hollywood sci-fi film, or something that Luc Besson would do (okay, _Valerian_ actually had a better premise than _The Fifth Element_, but it had none of its charm or casting perfection, whereas _Fifth_ is a classic despite its ridiculously stupid Sci-Fi dialogue and plot. _Lucy_ was an insult to... well, everyone.)

However, it's not lacking in visual flair. Alice's antique robots were all unique and believable (well, maybe Monique was more of a joke gimmick that didn't always work well) and the Yonyx designs, while clearly reminiscent of Robo-Cop (obviously a very intentional evocation), manage to actually outdo the original. And the electrocution, etc. special fx actually had me glued to the screen.

It's mostly satirical in how it approaches clichés of human behavior, relationships, and modern corporate technoculture, but the part later in the film between François and her sex bot was shockingly sincere and touching. It's actually got a lot of quotable lines, and screen grabs that would be prime reaction meme bait.

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SINCERITY 64%
SEXUAL URGE 80%
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ERECTION 100%
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I also appreciated the menacing and manic murder glare and unsettlingly large-toothed grin of the Yonyx robocops. Disturbingly fitting, and I think it should be the go-to template for whatever robo-shit death machines Boston Dynamics and Raytheon end up creating to scorch us meatbags into submission in the coming decades. If we're going to make "Down in the Park" into reality, then at least give them a face that we can aim for.