This crazy music video by Megaforce had me sitting upright in my seat. Cool cartoon effects offer a scary juxtaposition with the kids killing each other in parodies of drug deals and religious extremism.

What really hits home with this creative music video is the way it taps into the wonderfully mundane world of a kids imagination.

This music video skips us backwards and forwards through anarchical moments where the characters are smashing objects. It’s filmed beautifully and has been edited exquisitely. Well, I say exquisitely, up until about 3/4s of the way through the music video it’s fantastic, then all of a sudden they use a kind of epilepsy inducing techique flashing garish colours into our faces. What’s that all about?

Apart from that a great music video!

If ever an example was need of how important a great soundtrack and musical score can be to a film then this was it. Perspective is set in a dystopian future where people are able to buy ‘experiences’. They load these into their brain directly from what looks like an old Amiga or Commodore (quite a cool yet odd choice).

The styling is great. It’s a dark, dank, deserted apartment building where seedy activity occurs. I completely bought it. The soundtrack too is awesome. It felt heavily influenced by Half Life which is great because it shows that the inspiration that drives video games and films is now a two way street. Films can definitely borrow things from the world of video games.

Where the film falls down slightly is in the plot. This is a cliched sci-fi story that has been told and retold a million times. There’s nothing new here (apart from some gratuitous sex scenes). If anything the story has been borne out of so much cliche that it gets itself wrapped up in knots and ends up with a conclusion that makes no sense whatsoever.

Despite that it’s still an enjoyable 5 or so minutes and has some great visuals and audio there to be proud of.