God Awful movie

Rating: 1/10 (22 May 2007)

I can not believe IMDb has a rating of 8.2 for this film. Believe me it is not even worth 5 points, let alone 8.2. And I can certainly not believe that some people would actually like it. The plot of the movie is nonsense. There is nothing connecting to another thing. The director tries to touch on issues like discrimination against illegal immigration, killing of innocents, end of future because of our own destruction portrayed through infertility, but all these important issues were not brought out in a manner to provide any thought provoking of any kind. The idea of infertility for 18 years and a sudden pregnancy had a great potential to be a very good film, but it is lost in incomprehensible fight scenes and sentimental crap, like the Messianic scene of the mother and child going through stunned soldiers and civilians. Oh, and it is also quite sexist. For some reason women are the infertiles. And Luke, who becomes the leader of Fishes after Julian Moore dies, thinks that the child just must be a boy. It's like the waiting of the second coming of Jesus (which, by the way, the name of Jesus is used constantly in the movie). But, guess what! The baby is a girl. The gender of the child shouldn't even have a place in the movie, because the whole theme of infertility and then pregnancy is a hope of continuation of life. Anyway, my disappointment was great especially after watching The Pan's Labyrinth and Babel (the films of the other two Mexican-American directors) and being in love with those movies, this one had a promise of being at least a decent film. BUT IT IS BAAAAADDDDD. If you want something good, watch either Pan's labyrinth or Babel. Don't be fooled by the rating. Don't waste your time.