Ugggh!

Rating: 3/10 (26 January 2007)

Perhaps the saddest thing about this movie is the wasted talent in the cast. All are very capable actors brought down by the completely uninspiring plot.
The viewer is immediately thrust into a bleak future where people are miserable and the world is sterile. The cast makes the most of this slow paced and unexciting movie, but they fail to ever make it interesting or compelling. Michael Caine delivers such stellar lines as "pull my finger" repeatedly and Clive Owens spend the majority of the movie in solemn despair. Julianne Moore is initially set as a leader and focus, but she's pushed aside in the story fairly early.
The basic plot is nothing more than a group of people's attempts to exploit the discovery of one pregnant woman named "Kee" and use it for political leverage. The plot is essentially everyone's adventures as they get her from one point to another.
With the exception of Clive Owen, this movie pretty much gets handed over to the supporting cast who reappear at illogical and random times. There is no mechanism which brings them back into the movie other than the plot's desperate need for new dialog and something to move the story forward.
The future is so bleak and illogical, that their goal of getting Kee to the destination seems completely irrelevant and inconsequential. The movie boils down to a weak political commentary about life and the direction we are leading. The concept that the movie takes place in the future doesn't even come through very well. The settings and appearance of the locations look more like the 1970's than they do the future.
Overall the movie is just slow paced and boring. The characters aren't exciting so there is very little reason to get excited about the movie.
Wait for the DVD. This movie is a strong, bold 3 on a scale of 1-10.
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