Utter drivel

Rating: 1/10 (18 April 2009)

I watched it on TV last week encouraged by the the very positive review it was given by my TV guide.
It was hopeless dreary nonsense from the beginning and I only watched it to the end partly to see if it could get any worse - it did - and because I thought that it must some redeeming feature to have been described as "superb" by the reviewer - it didn't. The script is abominable, packed with clichés and unnatural monologues. The plot is pathetic and deteriorates. The acting isn't good and one actor is staggeringly wooden. The music is awful and the attempt at "future music" is like the logic my step-father once used in buying me a tie as a present when I was a teenager: "I thought this tie was awful, so I thought you'd like it".
The cars are particularly annoying. In a feeble attempt to copy Gattaca's stylish and subtle use of old Citroens as cars of the future, it uses some of the odder looking modern cars with bits of stuff crudely stuck on them. Clive Owen manages to push start one of them, pushing it uphill single-handedly.
It is like a drawn out episode of Dr Who with all the silliness but none of the self-awareness. The ending has to be sen to be believed - it could have been written by a ten-year-old. I've made better films on my mobile phone by pressing the record button by accident. How it can have been nominated for any Oscars, I cannot imagine.