In 2006, Reeves appeared in the Richard Linklater-directed animated science fiction thriller A Scanner Darkly, which premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[120] Reeves played Bob Arctor/Fred, an undercover agent in a futuristic dystopia under high-tech police surveillance. Based on the 1977 novel by Philip K. Dick, the film was a box office failure.[121] However, the film attracted generally favourable reviews; Paul Arendt of the BBC thought the film was “beautiful to watch”, but that Reeves was outshone by his co-star Robert Downey Jr.[122][123] His next role was Alex Wyler in The Lake House, a romantic drama adaptation of the 2000 South Korean film Il Mare, which reunited him with Sandra Bullock. Despite its box office success,[124] Mark Kermode of The Guardian was highly critical, writing “this syrup-drenched supernatural whimsy achieves stupidity at a genuinely international level […] The last time Bullock and Reeves were together on screen the result was Speed. This should have been entitled Stop”.[125] Towards the end of 2006, he co-narrated The Great Warming with Alanis Morissette, a documentary about climate change mitigation.[126]
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