Blu-ray Review – Hallucination Strip

"Hallucination Strip" (a.k.a. "Roma Drogata" and "The Hallucinating Trip") is an apt title for a movie that tends to wander around in a daze, never quite accomplishing anything as it serves up a feast of flesh and social commentary. The 1975 effort from director Lucio Marcaccini (unsurprisingly, his only feature) seeks to understand what the kids of Italy are up to as drugs and dissent flood the streets, but its appetite for concern is short-lived, with more concentration placed on sex and surreal adventures into psychedelics, limiting the world-changing impact the picture seems intent on achieving in its early going. "Hallucination Strip" is interesting in fits, but its ambition is more fascinating than its execution, with Marcaccini not exactly guiding the endeavor, he's just surviving it, hoping random jabs at profundity will cover the film's lack of absorption when it comes to the details of discontent and the weight of mistakes. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com