Great Move but with a typical Hollywood cop out.

Rating: 9/10 (29 December 2006)

You've seen the advertisements so you know the basics. Women mysteriously stopped having children. Some time before this Theo (Clive Owen) and Julian (Julianne Moore) lost their only child to an illness. The movie is about a number of things but of course the preciousness of life. How much more poignant would the story have been had Theo and Julian aborted the child rather than his death be due to illness? But of course, no matter how much the Hollywood clique rails against state sanctioned violence (executions, war, 'police actions' etc..) no criticism of abortion is ever to be found.
Aside from this criticism, its dystopian vision is unsettling and intriguing. Well cast and well acted. I have only bothered to see 8 movies in the theater this year but this is clearly the best. I do not understand why the release is so limited, it was a real pain to hunt down and travel to the only theater in the DC area showing it.