Addict Frank Grieves (Elliot Cowan) is a Dreck and feeds his addictions with a near limitless supply of contraband drugs, alienating his wife and small child in the process. In order to police the black market, a group of narcotics cops called Drecks was created. Unfortunately, the emergence of legal narcotics has created an underground black market for new ways to get high. The Ambro corporation under the guidance of Todd Ambo (James Callis) is the world's leading provider of safe, regulated legal narcotics. In order to rid the world of the illegal drug trade and lethal narcotics, the manufacture and distribution of intoxicating drugs has been legalized and regulated. Unfortunately, a late in the game plot twist jumps the proverbial shark and the film has a difficult time recovering momentum in the home stretch. 'Narcopolis' from Writer and Director Justin Trefgarne is a movie that at the outset does an impeccable job of world building to bring us a possible future where all narcotics are legal and regulated. If one thing falls out of place, the filmmaker risks losing their audience's suspension of disbelief. The audience needs to know the time period they're looking at, get acclimated to a possible future and accept the advances in technology, and they also need to find a grounded human element in order to feel a part of this new world. Solid science fiction filmmaking requires a lot of world building effort in order to be effective.

Narcopolis review