Review of Crimes of the Future

David Cronenberg had made some extremely good films (e.g. 'The Fly' and 'Eastern Promises') and at least one masterpiece ('Spider') but, with this sorry outing, he's descended into self parody. His attempts in this film to fuse his usual body horror with eroticism are both laughable and dull. Add to that a one-theme storyline, monochrome direction and barely more than adequate acting and I was left wondering why anyone involved in this movie bothered making it: it talks quite a lot but says very little, and if a film does that then it at least needs to be entertaining and this just isn't, unless you're entertained by cruelty and violence. I left the cinema wishing I'd spent my time doing something productive. Best avoided.