Full review on my blog max4movies: Wir (international title: We) is a dystopian science fiction drama set in One State, a totalitarian regime strictly regulating how people live, work, and think. The plot mainly focuses on D503, a loyal mathematician working on a space shuttle, set to explore other worlds and potentially impose their system on the people there. However, when he meets the rebellious I330, he empathizes with an underground group of revolutionaries. Based on the 1920 Russian dystopian novel "We" by Jewgeni Samjatin, the movie mostly stays true to the source material, but it also struggles to capture the scope of the novel and the acting performances are generally not impressive. Due to the low budget, the visual presentation is rudimentary, however, the few different set pieces look great and really convey the novel's concept of mass surveillance (i.e., like a giant panoptikon city). Still, because of the mostly decent cinematography, the well-written dialogues, and the interesting world building, the movie can overcome some of its more technical flaws.
