deathcube-1 I thought this film was going to be a drama about a guy who makes a women in his computer and falls in love with her. It's not. However it's not a bad movie either.Dopamine is actually about a guy who is developing a 3D interactive pet for computers. When the investors want to test 'koy koy' the pet out, it gets tested at a local daycare.Sabrina Lloyd (of sliders fame) plays one of the daycare teachers, and the love interest for the emotionally over analysing Rand (John Livingston).What follows is 79 mins of pretentiousness.While I still enjoyed the movie, it definitely has a small audience. I imagine that women between the ages of 18 and 25 will love this movie.As I always say you should never trust a reviewer because they only review based on taste and everyone has different tastes.Good movie, solid performances, check it out for yourself.

George Parker "Dopamine" is one of those all to many little one man band indie start-up flicks sorely lacking in resources...financial, creative, etc. The flick wanders around the lives of three guys who are into creating a virtual computer character while focusing on one (Livingston) and his romantic involvements with a teacher (Lloyd). A bleak exercise in pseudo intellectualism, this flick delivers a big dose of the cold and clammies where the warm and fuzzies should be as it ploddingly and boringly meanders drunkenly into a variety of issues. Obviously contrived, clumsily written, stiff and awkward with characters it's difficult to care about and horrible music, "Dopamine" is a good flick to miss. (C-)

ArizWldcat I was so excited to have some coveted tickets to this movie at Sundance. The story was just okay. The director was so sweet when he got up to talk about his film before the showing. His voice cracked a bit when he talked about how lucky he was to have found his wife and to have loved her for 15 years. Awwwwww. So I really wanted to like this movie, but I just didn't see any chemistry between the two main characters. I didn't dislike the movie, but it's not one that I will see again.

creamygreen Inappropriately videographed in an self-conscious style reminiscent of the "hip and cool" B-grade TV action series Silk Stalkings, this film offers little in the way of human insight, original characters or surprise. Despite co-starring Sabrina Lloyd, who was winsome in Sports Night and Ed, the film makes you want to leave unseen before the credits roll. Unfortunately I didn't. I just saw it at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival where I saw another film about love by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It is called I Love You and never has the discrepancy between TV weaned pablum and cinematic poetry been made so sharply evident to me. If the conceit of Dopamine's main character designing a cuddly interactive computer character as a replacement for his own emotional connection wasn't obvious enough, the dialog will lay it out for you time and time again. The bland predictability of the story, the stock characters (sensitive lead, womanizing buddy, token black friend) make you feel bad that someone had spent so much time on the impressive effects used to make the "emotionally responsive" Koy Koy computer character that the young hip technology guys are toiling over for the big client. Also impressive were the "Brain Chemistry" computer effects used in the out-of-place opening credit sequence and which were needlessly invoked again every time the main character fell further "in love". When John Livingston's character Rand finally sheds the inevitable tear, it is so discomforting and phony that even a generous Sundance audience could be moved to groan. Other characters, like Rand's parents, are merely expository devices. The film's ruminations on love and contemporary relationships were dealt with years ago by Oprah. Despite its desperate efforts to do so, this is a film that takes few risks. A huge misapplication of craftsmanship.