THX 1138

THX 1138 es una descripción muy distintiva y visualmente impactante de un futuro sin alegría en el que los microchips toman el mando de los sentimientos, necesidades y deseos humanos. Al principio, los omnipresentes pitidos, las voces robóticas y las pantallas pueden ponerte de los nervios, pero una vez que te sintonizas con la historia, te espera una experiencia envolvente con una conclusión impactante. Aunque quizá no sea tan impactante hoy como lo fue en el momento de su estreno. (17.04.2003)

Fans of George Lucas are fundamentally divided into two groups: a minority that shrugs at how the director managed to film the provocative and visionary art-house sci-fi THX 1138 and then could slip into producing pop-cultural crap like Star Wars, and the majority who admire the amazing, entertaining, colorful, and playful Star Wars, only to later discover that Lucas had previously made some strange pseudo-sci-fi without rhyme or reason, with heroes using a peculiar vocabulary, in stark settings, which bears no resemblance to his later great blockbusters. I myself belong to the first group. THX 1138 captivated me with its atmosphere of a dehumanized, robotized world, afraid of emotions and feelings, where the individual is reduced to a sum of money. It's a creative work that precisely reflected the contemporary anxieties among the American intellectual elite at universities. Overall impression: 90%. (14.06.2006)

Dystopian science fiction according to young George Lucas. To tell the truth, I didn’t like it, I’d rather watch Star Wars for an entire week than THX 1138 again. (18.06.2011)

I don't think it's a conceptually bad movie. The message is there. Likewise, I don't think the setting was poorly executed, the tricks are really good, but the overall way it is presented, how it is filmed, just didn't click with me at all. It's almost as if Lucas didn't want anyone to watch it. From someone who directed "Star Wars," it's simply unexpected for me. (05.03.2015)