"Everything is a mythical cosmic battle between faith and chance."

Rating: 7/10 (20 February 2018)

I've read a handful of reviews for this film and many feel the story is somewhat prophetic; one writer states that it's a 'gut wrenching look at an all too possible future". If that's the case, maybe we should all give up right now. There's a place for dystopian films I guess, but this film doesn't offer much in the way of hope, even if Theo Faron (Clive Owen) completed his mission posthumously by delivering Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey) and her baby to the 'Tomorrow' ship. It would have helped if there were some good guys in the story, but the government forces and the insurgent 'Fishes' they were aligned against were both so brutally extreme that it was difficult to pick the side with a nobler cause. And then you had the refugees, the 'fugees', caught in the middle with their own hopeless situation.
It was really confusing early in the picture for example, when Theo and Julian (Julianne Moore) were making their escape with Miriam (Pam Ferris ) and Kee, and they were being attacked by a mob that one would consider part of the 'Fishes', but Julian herself was the principal leader of that movement. So big question mark there. And 'breaking into' the Bexhill Refugee Camp just so Theo could rescue Kee and her baby OUT of the camp seemed like an exercise in redundancy. Yes, the militant Syd (Peter Mullan) was Theo's contact inside the camp, but the whole roundabout nature of what was to transpire got very muddled.
Probably the best I can say about the film has to to with the performances of Clive Owen and Michael Caine as the strangely anachronistic (for 2027) pothead Jasper. I would have included Julianne Moore as well but she didn't last very long in the story. It was inspiring that Kee and her baby made it safely to the rescue ship, but thinking about it some more, if the youngest person on the planet was just a tad older than the eighteen year old who was murdered at the beginning of the picture, humanity's best hope was still a long way off before human births could be considered a normal event again.