Two hours I can never get back

Rating: 2/10 (21 February 2007)

I heard good things about the movie, and had read the book, and almost walked out.
I have no idea what people liked about the movie. The four people in my group are all science fiction fans and all hated it.
The things that made the book interesting, they left out. For example, there is no real explanation for the motivations of individuals or governments in this pre/post apocalyptic world.
*** SPOILER *** What's most amazing is they never explain the central theme. The last human will die of old age within 80 years and everybody is willing to risk the fate of humanity by taking the only fertile female in the world into gun battles because they are worried about political posturing. It might be possible to suspend disbelief of the immigrants rights militia, the massive government involvement in refugee gathering, warehousing, and deportation, and the politically motivated militia operating within the refugee camp. However, everybody stopping killing each other to let the baby and mother go by, then going back to killing each other stretches things a bit thin. Finally, you have this "human project", which is altruistic, invincible, and salvation (i.e., deus ex machina).
Maybe there's some deep symbolism that I'm just missing.