Dark, depressing, and disconnecting...there's no soul!

Rating: 3/10 (18 January 2007)

I was really, really looking forward to this film. It looked like the next, modern-day Blade runner, loaded with a combination of action and story, at least that's what the trailers looked like. But unfortunately, it was major disappointment. To put the film in simpler terms, instead of focusing on the story, in which the trailers showed was about an ordinary man named Theodore Faron (Clive Owen) who accompanies Juliane Taylor (Julianne Moore) to relocate a pregnant woman that can save humanity from self-destruction.
No, this is not the case with this film, instead, Leftims propaganda is rubbed in your face. It's no surprise that the Leftist sympathizing critics loved it; it had all the things they fantasize about or dread: - Fascist Totalitarian State - Lynch mob in the form of the all male, all white state police - CoOp Farms are safe, Capitalistic cities are dangerous -white rich people who have mindless and spoiled children - Discrediting of the Christian religion/bloodthirsty Muslims- Celebrity worship - Concentration camps - Deportations - Beirut/Baghdad style street fighting - Crooked cops smuggling drugs and people into Prisons - State torture of political activists - massacres of innocent civilians See what I mean? Even more so, the depiction of the world that Alfonso Cuaron created gave me memories of what eastern Europe became after the Berlin Wall fell. This includes: pollution, trash every way, and everything/everyone is filthy.
So, the story was left to rot, leaving plenty of plot holes and unclear explanations. The film did not get involved in any of characters nor grew in deep with the story, as to how the world ended up in the way it is. Instead of developing characters, they were killed off almost as badly as Scorsese's "The Departed", but much, much quicker. So, there is no real feelings for these characters as they face either their demise or success in this "screwed up" world, nor are their motivations and inner struggles revealed.
The three good cast members: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, and Michale Caine were great, but were only in the film for a limited time. No chemistry was built up in the characters they played. Even Michael Caine, who was strangely dressed up as a "crazy hippie" was deeply limited, as was the lovely Julianne Moore (who was only in the film for ten minutes). The rest of the cast was incompetent for the film (if you call it a film). They're acting was weak and at most wooden. Particularly the actress who played Kee. All she did was whine, complain, and hide behind people's back as they were blown to pieces by lead (which happened frequently).
Bottom line, this film had no soul; there was no flow to it (just propaganda); the trailers were very misleading. Instead of a combo of action and story, the film delivers depression, darkness, and disconnections in a leftist dystopia. What was worse was, that the camera was "hand held". There's no big deal with that, but when the camera shakes violently as if it was near the tremors of an earthquake, it gives a very out of control and unclear view as to what was happening. I felt like I was watching a B movie, like Mad Max. And not to mention the action sequences (which were few), were like this, and I was forced to look away, because I had such a headache! So my point of view, do not see this film, unless you're a Leftist or believed in Leftism.
A generous 1/4 if you do see this movie, take some anti-nausea pills, for there are guarantees, you may get motion sickness.