As my review title might indicate, this film owes more than a little to Citizen Kane, and quite a bit to Sin City also I would guess, filmed as it was mostly before green screens, the stylized and wildly imagined backgrounds filled in later.

This is the story of a dead tycoon’s clone, raised carefully to be as much like his original as possible, then handed control at age 25 of a megacorporation. It’s a whole different world from when the tycoon was king, however, and the clone leads his company in the opposite direction from their hopes.

The old world is dead; Earth barely habitable; people live in orbital communities of some sort (with full gravity, however, but it’s a movie, we give it a pass, as always) and everything is virtual. This doesn’t satisfy Able Edwards—even though his namesake built the business empire on fantasy, cartoons, theme parks (yes, it’s sort of Walt Disney! More than sort of!). Wouldn’t real animals and real roller coasters be more fun than virtual ones?

The framing device - a probate case trying to settle Able Edwards’ Mark II’s estate - is kind of irritating in that it’s been done to death, but other than that this is a perfectly enjoyable film, mostly because it’s nifty to look at in a hyper-unreal way.

Give it a try!