Alice

This is Sienna Guillory. She was in Helen of Troy and the Time Machine. With dark hair, she reminds me of Trinity in the Matrix. She also reminds me a bit of Tomb Raider - not the one played by Angelina Jolie, the one you imagine when you play the game. Interesting that there is a bit of difference.

I think we will be seeing more of her. The movie was interesting because you have Valentine (Sienna), who is very sharp and skillful, and then Alice (Milla Jovovich)comes along and is simply in a different class. I love the fact that they call her Alice. It is such an innocent, sweet sounding name. These two young ladies are both very strong, very sexy, and yet there isn;t really a rivalry, there's co-operattion, and alliances are formed and broken as the motley crew try to find a way out. This movie is watchable, but I found it even more interesting, for two reasons:

1) I recently brainstormed with some students and came up with a new idea for Fiction. It is fully fledged character, like Harry Potter, and it bears some relation to this movie, because it is a story that evolves out of gaming (platform) type universe. It also features a young girl as the most powerful force, the strength, in the world gone mad.

2) Obviously because I enjoy Counterstrike it is interesting to see how they marry the game into a movie. The first film, like the first Tomb raider film, did not do a great job, I think because the directors felt constrained by budgets and a need to align the material very closely to some mythical (but unrealistic) gaming concept.

Follow the white rabbit and see how far the rabbit hole goes... It that like saying: "Release your imagination and see what world unfolds..." Surely that is what Alice in Wonderland is - an imagination let loose.