The gold standard. Best future sci fi movie I've yet seen.

Rating: 10/10 (2 July 2008)

This is the most realistic and disturbing vision of the future I've seen in a film. There is so much attention to detail and there's so much going on in each shot that its mind blowing. This is not a relationship film, where you get to root for a couple or something. Its a survival film. Society as a whole is literally going through the motions and spinning towards the abyss. The main characters have to win for the good of humanity, in spite of all of its evil. Its packed with action, heroism, fear and paranoia. I've read review after negative review here from people who say the story went nowhere or that Clive Owen did a poor job. I want to know what these people were doing during this film, because they obviously weren't paying attention, or they have no soul. This is an incredible action film with well acted characters. Trying to summarize it is not doing it justice. I guess comparatively, I could say that you should watch it if you liked movies like 12 Monkies or 28 Days.