"On a modest budget, director Ben Wheatley gives us a retro sci-fi with much tongue-in-cheek paranoia, questioning of reality and proliferation of multiverses, and featuring comic-book dialogue that's been re-recorded, giving the whole thing a sheen of dreamlike unreality. There's also a lot of quirky lo-fi special effects work with Airfix models. Bulk is a movie indebted to a mountain of pop culture references listed in Wheatley's own handwriting in block capitals over the closing credits."
"Space: 1999 is one it is good to see it there, and see it reflected in the preceding film and with the monochrome cinematography, Dutch angles and looming closeups there's a bit of John Frankenheimer and a little of Chris Petit. The film is massively self-indulgent, often funny, rescued from its not infrequent longueurs by its stars, those very likable performers Alexandra Maria Lara and Sam Riley, who are a real-life married couple."
Ben Wheatley's Bulk is a modest-budget retro sci-fi that blends tongue-in-cheek paranoia, reality questioning and proliferation of multiverses with comic-book dialogue re-recorded for a dreamlike unreality. The film uses quirky lo-fi special effects, including Airfix models, and stacks explicit pop-culture references in the credits. Monochrome cinematography, Dutch angles and looming closeups evoke John Frankenheimer and Chris Petit. The plot follows investigative journalist Sam Riley, drugged, kidnapped and brought to a suburban house housing a billionaire's Brain Collider that probes consciousness and possibly opens intergalactic or interior-mental portals. Alexandra Maria Lara plays an elegant, inscrutable guide whose deadpan drollery anchors the film's zaniness.
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