Well Made But Stupid Plot

Rating: 2/10 (5 April 2007)

Well I will say the film was well made. Acting and directing was great and the film did create a gritty foreboding impression of the future which I so enjoy. However the plot does not really make any sense at all. No one has given birth in 18 years. OK, how does that then drive the countries of the world to ultra nationalism and isolationism? One of the main reasons that western Europe including the U.K. has allowed so much of an influx of immigration from all over the world is the fact that birth rates in these nations have been so very low. These nations need a large tax base to support their governmental structures. If there where no babies born, logic would dictate they would welcome in even more immigrants. It's as if they thought of this really cool idea of a zero birth rate future, but then threw in a subtle swipe against nationalism and anyone who believes in any form of immigration restrictions. There was a scene in which Muslim's in the Warsaw ghetto type "refugee camp" where chanting "allah akbar". As if they were a part of "the uprising". So its just the same old tripe of making the terrorists look like the poor little victims and the white Englishmen as the evil oppressors.