Thought provoking

Rating: 9/10 (15 February 2007)

Its a great movie to watch, but the story was dense i think and was fragmented into many pieces to fit this movie. Many things in the story did not make much sense, for example whats with the Muslim march?. And was it that other terrains so over ridden with war or water (floods)? that everyone fled to UK?. Many things were left loose.. but i think it feels like you have wandered into someone's life by chance in year 2027 and you have to deal with whats around you rather than on what it is based. Clive is outstanding as usual. The basis of this movie is the value of innocence in the world, and how children make the world worth living in. Yet the world only remembers what is lost, and takes the presence of innocence for granted and looks for ways to abolish it. The movie made me think of millions of unborn and born children dying every day in every war torn country, and how would the leaders of armies like it if they were handed a bloody corpse of their own child, because that is what a parent receives wherever there is a war that randomly takes lives. How do we set the price on a child's life, how do we report it as casualty of war, or as losses for greater purpose when these children don't even know what life is!. This movie is thought provoking, and the fact it trans-locates you into the near future 2027 makes more effective in positioning you into that state of mind. Michael Caine in his last 20 years seems to have enhanced mastered the art of selecting great movies, his presence is Golden (as his hair once was :D).