Action thriller with a brain

Rating: 10/10 (1 January 2007)

This movie seems depressing at first, and its view of the future is very bleak, but ultimately good triumphs. Yet the story is not sappy at all. They took a big risk by setting the film in the near future, 2027, but it pays off. Highly recommended. Great acting, plot moves right along, plausible. Clive Olwen and Julianne Moore play convincing, warts and all characters, and I had no idea a certain prominent character was played by Michael Caine until I read the credits. If you know any old lefties personally, the characters in the film will seem familiar to you. The bad guys are a little too bad, but as no one can be trusted for long, the movie can't be said to be propaganda. It is violent but not gratuitously so. I haven't read the book so can't comment on the relationship between the book and the movie.