what a waste

Rating: 2/10 (25 October 2006)

What a waste of a terrific opportunity. Infertility provides grounds for a brilliant apocalyptic vision but the logic of this film is so wrong it destroys any credibility the concept gave it. Here are my problems...
1. Why is the Human Project a mysterious entity? Given the resources spent on infectious diseases today, every government, every biotech and pharmaceutical company would be doing NOTHING ELSE but trying to solve this problem. What is wrong with these people?
2. Why do they believe that because KEY is an immigrant, the fact that she may hold the answer to saving humanity would be ignored? Why doesn't Theodore (Clive Owen) just take KEY to his rich and powerful cousin that gave him the transit papers? It's retarded.
3. If they need to get to this buoy to find The Human Project why don't they just get a boat and go there? Why do they need to go through the detention centre? Sure it's a little closer but it's also a war zone. Why not get a decent boat, row a little further and avoid being shot? People this stupid deserve to die out.
4. Films need to be thematically tight. The themes of immigration/humanity just don't fit with the theme of infertility. It's trying to be two films in one and this never works.
So really, with so many writers credited with the screenplay you'd think someone would have picked up on some basic elements of logic - but then maybe that's the problem.