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Title: An exception to the rule that books are better than movies
Review: To be fair, I found only a glimmer of similarity between the two pieces. Both pit a number of human-engineered automatons against a single cop, but after that setup the two pieces couldn't be more dissimilar. Dick's work is laborious, boring, the action stagnant with philosophy. There are points when Dick could delve (interestingly) into the hero's psyche and render the author's philosophical and moral arguments more convincingly with action; instead, the writing is too concerned with the sort of adolescent, masturbatory concerns that have tainted science fiction in the past. If you want a brainy, philosophically overwrought read, pick this up. If you want a story that moves -- albeit not without its flaws -- rent the director's cut.
