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Strange Days
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case?
















1 January 1954, New Rochelle, New York, USA




25 December 1958, Pontiac, Michigan, USA


26 June 1934, Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

18 August 1961, Richmond, California, USA


13 July 1962, Paterson, New Jersey, USA




27 November 1956, Mitchell Field Air Force Base, East Meadow, Long Island, New York, USA





29 November 1961, Detroit, Michigan, USA


15 May 1967, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1942, Tokyo, Japan

28 June 1970, Los Angeles County, California, USA

10 July 1923, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA



May 07, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] "Strange Days" owes a debt to Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom," the film that ruined his storied career.
July 01, 2005
Engaging, genuinely thrilling sci-fi. Enough to make you wish Bigelow made a movie a year.
December 02, 2006
Set in LA at the end of the century, this morality tales showed again the main problem in the director's work: The great divide between simlistic plots and technical sophistication. Even so, it's one of a kind for its use of color, sound and motion
March 17, 2018
The movie went off like a landmine in Lincoln Center, traumatizing upscale audiences with its pulp semiotics and Bigelow's blunt-force filmmaking.
April 16, 2007
[Bigelow] with the help of her talented cast, constantly wrestles against the script, and for a great deal of time, she appears to be winning.
February 13, 2001
Though the creators of Strange Days may well be interested in its dramatic and thematic elements, they do not have the same touch for these moments as they do for camera pyrotechnics.
January 26, 2018
Messy, dreary and repulsive slick near future sci-fi/film noir thriller that both dazzles and is bombastic.
January 18, 2013
Director Kathryn Bigelow comes closer than any other filmmaker to turning movies into a virtual reality trip.
January 01, 2000
Bigelow is so enamored of high-tech thrills, and so mesmerized by the violence she seeks to condemn, that her efforts at 11th-hour moralizing seem limp and halfhearted.
January 01, 2000
It's fascinating the way Bigelow is able to suggest so much of VR's impact (and dangers) within a movie - a form of VR that's a century old.
May 12, 2001
Undeniably thrilling and troubling.
April 12, 2002
Once the premise has lost its promise, and Fiennes's brave attempts at characterization are sacrificed to pseudo-dazzle, everything appears awfully humdrum and, yes, distinctly dated.