Jim (2010)
Oct. 8th, 2010 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Abigail Savage as #3774 looks out over the distant compound in “Jim.”
Science Fiction for the Great Recession
By MIKE HALE
Published: October 7, 2010
“Jim” is two or maybe three movies in one. There’s an angry downsizing drama, a sort of “Falling Down” for the derivatives age, that overlaps with a cautionary tale about modern medicine and genetic engineering, and these connect in a hazy way to a dystopian science-fiction fantasy set on a future earth populated by clones. What they all share is a reliance on cliché and a limited visual imagination that is aggravated, in the science-fiction segments, by the film’s minuscule budget. More
