Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

westside-surfer It's great to finally see a sci-fi that does global injustice right. Elysium was pretty good, but it doesn't capture the gritty realism the way Sleep Dealer did.This drama is effective because it hits close to the reality between US and Mexico. It takes that godawful situation and built a very interesting story intertwined with a technology that could one day exist. The combination of poverty with technology makes for some awesome cyberpunk.The CG is a bit on the crappy side, but I could overlook it because the movie was story driven. It didn't rely on special effects. The visuals that did work did awesomely. They helped build the tone and didn't function as cheap shortcut.Say adios to high budget garbage.

followmee It caught my attention, probably because it was so unusual to your typical movies but it definitely sets interesting topics, and more importantly a perspective on how things can potentially end up. I am not a big sci-fi person however, I would see this again. It's amazing how many aspects of the near future linked to the social issues were brought up. It lets you decide for yourself.. What do I mean by that ? you can decide if you agree or not, they do their job on painting the picture for you. Although, the acting was not really that impressive it did the job well. It was well casted for its purpose and budget. Would love to see more work like this. Look forward to hearing more.

billcr12 Sleep Dealer is a science fiction film. Memo works in a factory but tells his story through flashbacks. His father owned a farm which shut down due to a dam built nearby. Memo becomes a hacker and is able to break into a military computer system. He intercepts communications and is almost caught. A drone detects him and attacks their trailer nearby, killing his father. He takes a bus to Tijuana and meets Luz, who has nodes on her wrist which taps into a network. She uploads memories to a trading company, and she tells him how to get the nodes on the black market. Nemo is robbed and later has cyber sex with Luz and discovers that she is selling memories of him to the network. While online, he finds Ramirez, the pilot of the drone that killed his father, and they partner up to take on the evil global government. Sleep Dealer is sci-fi with a conscience; the story is good, with solid acting. Alex Rivera had previously made documentaries detailing the struggles of immigrants. He shows promise as s director and I look forward to his next movie.

lastliberal Under a currently established World Bank system, credit or loans will not be issued to Third World countries and others unless they agree to allow foreign investors access to privatize their water supply. It required mass demonstrations in Bolivia to force out a subsidiary of Bechtel that had privatized the water supply, increased costs three-fold initially, dispensed with system upkeep, and left a quarter of the rural homes without access to water.So, the premise of this film starts with something real and not futuristic. Soldiers/mercenaries? guard the water and Mexican citizens must pay exorbitant rates for it.We then meet Memo (Luis Fernando Peña), a young man who hacks into the wrong system (like Matthew Broderick in War Games) and finds himself in big trouble.When he runs off to a border town, he finds a job with the Sleep Dealers; a world where migrant workers' nervous systems are plugged into a global network, allowing them to do menial jobs in the U.S. for low wages but without setting foot in the United States, and a girl (Leonor Varela).New director Alex Rivera creates a chilling scenario that is an indictment of global capitalism and a look at the lost promises of the Internet.Most sci-fi buffs will find the film excruciatingly slow, but it provides much room for though about exploitation and capitalism.