A Waste of a Great Idea

Rating: 1/10 (22 December 2010)

The idea of human infertility in a global scale would have the potential to generate a great movie. Unfortunately this movie wastes this idea completely. It just boringly depicts a scenario that is at least very implausible.
No attempt is made to explain (or to encourage the audience to come up with its own explanations) why infertility would have brought the world to that dystopian state. It is much more probable that the world would get economically better in the first 18 years without children, since the costs of raising children would gradually disappear. It would only slowly start to get economically worse after the first 18 years.
With a diminishing population, resources per capita would increase across the world, and hence the amount of illegal immigrants who immigrate searching for better conditions for themselves and especially for their children, would decrease, instead of increasing as shown in this movie. The only explanation why the movie shows an increase in immigration seems to be the British xenophobia. Even under a condition (i.e. global infertility) that would actually decrease the number of illegal immigrants in their country, they manage to imagine that their country would be even more "attacked" by illegal immigrants. And as the movie shows, apparently they believe that such an increased inflow of immigrants would then justify locking all these immigrants in concentration camps...
It is improbable that, in a world where humanity faces extinction, people would start killing each other, instead of focusing on discovering what caused the infertility and solving it. The whole movie is just about escaping from these meaningless and random killings.
It is simply very boring. I cannot believe it got so many awards and a high rating in IMDb. And it is really a pity that this movie wasted its original idea of global infertility. Now, even if other movies do a better job with this idea, it will just not be that original anymore.