weird in a thoughtful way

Rating: 9/10 (24 June 2014)

This film is weird in a way that makes you think and is interesting. It creates a new world with new rules and it's exciting to see how that world is going to develop and to uncover it's past. It is one of those films that was enjoyable to watch, with the regular action and all that, but also great to remember because it was so novel. There's a moral but it's done in an artistic rather than preachy way and so the moral remains open to interpretation.
Another thing I liked about this movie was that the main character is a kid from an alternative school. Actually both the protagonist and antagonist are from alternative schools. It made me think, "lots of people are just regular, like these kids from alternative school," and it was cool to see a regular person, exceptional in some ways as we all are, be a hero.
There was also the military guy and the scientist, they were less regular (not in a bad way). I liked how the military guy said he was more concerned with action than with knowing, while the scientist made mistakes because he was so concerned with knowledge above practicalities. That was cool.