
Sydney Morning Herald
Wilson and Hayek occupy several levels of reality, or none, depending on how you read writer/director Mike Cahill's imagination. However, none of the levels is terribly believable.
Full reviewOwen Wilson leads this sci-fi mystery as a recently divorced man unsatisfied with his harsh office job. Also stars Salma Hayek as a woman who convinces him that the world around him is nothing but a miserable simulation of the blissful reality hidden from him. From the writer-director of I Origins.
Wilson and Hayek occupy several levels of reality, or none, depending on how you read writer/director Mike Cahill's imagination. However, none of the levels is terribly believable.
Full reviewCahill flounders with creating a sensory experience to match the story's cerebral ideas.
Full reviewThere's an engaging earnestness to it which sits side-by-side with a larky spirit of trial and error, almost like a choose-your-own-adventure fantasy where wild elements of chance keep dropping into the mix.
Full reviewBliss (2021) is available to stream in New Zealand now on Prime Video.
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