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)

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)

Fans of George Lucas are basically divided into two groups: a minority that shrugs their shoulders at how the director was able to create provocative and visionary art sci-fi like THX 1138 and then slide into producing pop culture crap like Star Wars, and a majority that admires the amazing, fun, colorful Star Wars and then realizes that Lucas had previously made some strange pseudo sci-fi without direction or substance, with peculiar hero dialogues and sparse sets, which bears no resemblance to his later great blockbusters. I belong to the first group myself. THX captivated me with its atmosphere of a dehumanized, robotized world that fears emotions and feelings, where the individual is reduced to a sum of money they are valued at. It's a creative matter that accurately reflected the contemporary anxieties among the American intellectual elite at universities. Overall impression: 90%. (14.06.2006)