User Score
6.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Negative: 2 out of 10

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  1. ChadS.
    Jan 7, 2005
    7
    If the film is self-aware, a car chase, or any action element becomes arty. We see a bad Hollywood film with the requisite explosions on an in-flight film at the film's opening. When "demonlover" switches genre and becomes less talk-oriented, don't assume the film is being dumbed down for commercial purposes.
  2. DanB.
    Oct 13, 2003
    5
    Looks good and well acted n all, and individually the scenes are great but when it comes together it just doesn't make for very affecting stuff. Seems like it is trying to make some statements but gets lost in its own need to be vague or arty? Not sure. But it just doesn't gel into much.
  3. ClintH.
    May 23, 2005
    10
    A visually stunning french art-action film. Strange and obscure, but haunting and powerful. Loved the idea that theses people live in a place where reality is suspended, and they have no feelings or emotions, much like a videogame. It casts a spell you will never forget.
Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 28
  2. Negative: 2 out of 28
  1. Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    30
    Sure to turn off general viewers due to its emotional inaccessibility, multitude of narrative problems and preoccupation with a torture Web site.
  2. Reviewed by: Glenn Kenny
    100
    Olivier Assayas latest effort could be mistaken for a hipper-than-thou thriller. But it isn’t--it’s in fact a difficult, challenging, and troubling art film. [October 2003, p. 19]
  3. 70
    May be Assayas' airiest work to date, an intriguing trifle that leaves its considerable pleasures to lounge around on the surface.