Fantastic visuals, excellent story, it has a sense of realism.

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2007)

This story had some striking visual scenes that remained in my mind for hours after the movie was over. I thought the plot was excellent, and that is realistically showed how people behave in very unnatural setting. This movie had some very deep and emotional moments. It seems to me that a lot of reviewers are focusing on some parts of the movie to really nit- pick, this isn't an action film, this movies point it to convey an overall feeling of being in a time and place and that is what it does very well. You can see tiny little details all over the set and references placed throughout the film that instead of being vague and confusing are enlightening or at the very least add an intensity I haven't seen in a long time. One of the few movies that made me want to cry at one point. Definitely one of the better movies so far in the 21st century. If I had a child I would want to take them to this movie. One thing I loved about this movie was that it didn't try to explain what happened like often happens in sci-fi movies, this is very plot driven, they just show you the landscape and tell you the situation and move on. I also liked that on the extremes of either side of the political landscape in this movie they where more or less the same, just on side had power and the other none. I thought that was very true about most of life, with the people in the middle just kinda caught up in it all. I highly recommend this as a beautiful piece of film, go see it with a friend or spouse or family member, even alone if you have to.