Pretty good film

Rating: 8/10 (21 March 2007)

I wanted to see this movie because of Clive Owen and was afraid to because of Julianne Moore. Thankfully, she dies early in the film. Her short appearance and the idea that humans might one day stop having children for no apparent reason were the flaws of this film, other than that, it was pretty well done. It even had lines spoken in Romanian :)
The depicted world was far too detailed to be a script only thing. Of course, the movie is based on a book. The actors play very well, the tension keeps up during the entire movie and I personally would have removed the last 5 minutes of the film, but that's just as well.
It is a sci-fi movie only in name. Its premise is that there haven't been any human births for 18 years and suddenly a pregnant woman appears. If you ignore that, it is all a chase film in a world dreamed by Bush. Corrupt government on one side, terrorists on the other and all the smart and compassionate people in the middle.
Bottom line: it was very well done, dark but not overly dramatic, desperate but not hysterical, heroic but not explosive. I mean, I can hardly believe Clive Owen went by all those discarded weapons and didn't pick one, didn't kill anyone, didn't even properly punch a guy. The only real fight scene he was in, he was saved by the Romanian woman :) The atmosphere was great and for that I mark it high. You want to watch this.