Same old Sci-fi rubbish! Should have been directed by Terry Gilliam!

Rating: 6/10 (29 January 2008)

*** Contains Spoilers!!! *** Don't get me wrong - I love Sci-fi - but this is just such an uninspired film and it could have been so much better.
Magic? Fantasy? There is none. All I felt at the end of the film is a sense of relief that it's over - as for the main character he's nodded off as well! There were some good moments - the war scenes particularly - but the cinematography was just soooooooo uninspiring, the characters shallow and as usual in crap sci-fi the 'history-why-did-this-happen?' pieces stuck in at predictable junctures throughout the film.
If you want to make good Sci-fi, leave it in the hands of a true fantasy director like Terry Gilliam. Compare Twelve Monkeys with Children of Men - there's just no comparison!
Now, if only they'd cast Bruce Willis, turned the aperture on the camera down a few notches, added some Ridley Scott skyline filters, a decent script and made it look a bit more like it wasn't filmed this year down Docklands somewhere - then it might not have been quite such a crap movie.
There have been some truly God-awful Sci-fi movies out over the last few years - take 'The Island' as one example - it's no wonder the genre takes such a beating.
Also, I can't believe the rating on this movie is so high - what are people thinking of?