If you’re a left-leaning liberal, it’s getting harder to watch films depicting the heroic actions of the US military with a straight face while the American government uses the real US military to consolidate its neo-colonial grip on power.

Even the topography of London is typically Tim Burton; row after row of dreary, industrial revolution-era terraces with the crooked, ramshackle Bucket house at one end of a huge boulevard and the Valhalla-like Wonka chocolate factory at the other.

How can a film that depicts a world 150 years in the future, a shadowy corporation, cyborgs, a tough young female hero with Hentai eyes, flying cars, showers of automatic weapon casings, a giant floating computer, karate and zombies be anything other than cool?