Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (8 January 2010)

Those who have read and appreciated P. D. James' novel, on which this film is supposedly based, will be disappointed. The book and film coincide at a few junctures, but the film basically presents a new story -- sometimes illogical, and inferior to P. D. James' original. Retained is the future, childless world, a world in which humanity is doomed because of its mysterious loss of fertility (other animals can procreate), a world of ever-increasing chaos, and the names of the characters. Almost everything else is changed; the story is mostly new and the characters bear little resemblance to their namesakes in the book. As it stands, the film is fair, but go read the book.