Disappointed

Rating: 5/10 (17 August 2007)

I was looking forward to watching this film, as its reviews were so positive. The characterisation was undeveloped and missed much of the thrust of the original story. There was a sense of annoying vision of the future with sites of London mashed together- the Tate Modern and Battersea Power Station became one! For those of us who know London, it was poor and shattered the narrative. The details of the future were also poor they made me think that production designer popped out to Camberwell to buy second hand fruit machines and a fiat multipla. The plot felt disjointed jumping the characters in unknown places to exactly where they were supposed to be, and the refugees spoke German. All in all the film was a bit of a poor experience and only benefited from good costumes, flip-flops and Michael Cane of course. The birth scene was so unrealistic and filmed from the other side of the room! How did this get awards?