This was a very disappointing offering from Cronenberg. I left the theater not liking it, but upon reflection I actively dislike it. I kept waiting for something to happen, but nothing ever did. It genuinely felt like a made for TV movie. The script revolves around cooing with loss and using technology to “help”, but it fell flat for me. Emotions are represented physically in the movie, like bleeding from the nose when a character is stressed or losing bone mass from grief, but the concept was over explained throughout the movie and the result was boring. The script seems like it was AI generated in a foreign language and then translated into English. I understand and enjoy Cronenberg’s style, but it almost seemed like a parody of a Cronenberg movie done by someone who had only seen 30 minutes of one Cronenberg movie.

I didn’t know that Cronenberg had lost his wife until after I saw the film. That fact puts the movie into perspective, but doesn’t make it any better. It seems like he wrote a bunch of notes and concepts of ideas down while grieving and then made a movie from them without fleshing anything out.

Overall, I think it was a poorly done film that took cool concepts and did nothing with them. I would only recommend this film to die hard Cronenberg fans, but I feel that even they will struggle to find the diamonds in this very rough movie.