Prototype

It's a puzzle of strange pleasures, a nerve-racking way of recalibrating how to look at the screen and the world outside the screen.

On a soul-deep scale, Williams has tapped into a conflict-the human race's apparent insistence on exterminating itself-and channeled it into material cinematic terms that continuously challenge themselves.

3D, once a novelty, has become a boring and overused gimmick: this is a rare chance to appreciate it anew.

It’s pretty continuously stunning, minus whatever push/pull I felt as a viewer, and the outstandingly layered soundtrack performs a slow upwards and downwards rumble to provide a sort of emotional/narrative spine.