What a waste of my time!!!

not horrible nor great

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

This little movie which flirts with the idea virtual reality gaming is a delight to look at but has an underwritten script. I would never expect anything intelligent or original from a B-movie, but Nirvana was neat. While there is certainly room for more dimension on the pages, everything in the frame, is of perfect dimension (or quality). This film has a colourful portrayal of the future, which plays with several different kinds of computer graphics, not to mention some other good quirks, like talking houses, alarms, and a computer game character who gains self awareness and has the ability to talk to his player. It's all fun and delightful. the dubbing is occasionally distracting, but I guess that depends on the manufacturer of the DVD copy. I just felt that there was a bit more room for story. The energetic climax, seems to zip by too quickly and the movie ends on a somewhat flimsy note. I think I can say I enjoyed this movie for what it was, It just needs more.

I've seen the Italian version and I found the dubbing marvelous,in particular Lisa-Emmanuelle Seigner, the interpretation very good, I really loved Solo-Diego Abatantuono in this new role. You know, in Italy he's a comic-cabaretist of the '80. Jimi decides to leave his normal and blank life of programmer to find his beloved Lisa, his life, in a cyberpunk "blade runner like" world. His story interlaces with Solo's story, the main character of the Jimi's video game. He gain auto-conscience thanks to a virus and find himself trapped in the game and is forced to repeat the same events over and over, he's only hope i Jimi... Particular story, I think it's from a book. Symbolisms, starting from the title...

Solo suddenly finds out that what he's living has happened before. In the middle of a "deja-vu" he discovers that he's not really alive. He's just the main character of a video game, and he refuses to keep "playing" in a non sense life, where he'll be born and killed again and again and again. He tries to convince the people around him, that they are inside a game, that their lifes are not real; that everything that happens has already happened before. But its useless: he's the only one who realizes it. Like a prophet, like a Jesus or a Buddha, he has just realized what he is, and the stupid meaning of his life-game. And he's the only one who can speak to their creator; their designer: Jimi Dini, a succesfull video game designer of the real life. A real life where Jimi lives, depressed, bored and numb. He's got something in common with Solo, thats why he decide to help him, erasing the game, his last an great creation, Nirvana, before its too late. Its not a matter of spoiling the great end of your life, but have you realized how repetitive it is? Maybe you should pay attention to Solo. Or try to find Jimi and ask him to be deleted.

I'm totally baffled reading all the positive comments about 'Nirvana'!! This has got to be one of the dumbest, most obvious and simplistic science fiction movies of recent years! I can only grasp at the fact that I was watching an awfully dubbed English language version, which made this almost torture to sit through. Can that be why I found it to be so lame and tedious? Maybe the original Italian version has smarter dialogue - I hope so because it doesn't get much worse than this - but I still fail to see how whatever language 'Nirvana' is in will make this trite and incoherent mess any better! The concept of a virtual reality video game character becoming self-aware and having an existential crisis COULD be an interesting one if it was handled by a writer with the talent of Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg or Bruce Sterling (who have all dealt with similar subject matter - questions of reality and identity), but unfortunately the hacks responsible for 'Nirvana' miss the boat. Forget this, forget 'The Matrix' (which at least was ENTERTAINING), for a thought provoking look at virtual reality go straight to Cronenberg's excellent 'eXistenZ'. 'Nirvana' is a total embarrassment!