My review that a lot might not like...

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2007)

To all of the people who read this and loved this movie; I'm sorry: The only reason why I'm giving this 4 stars is because of the screenplay and direction style, the action sequences, the feel of realism, especially, when your watching, acting, and other small things were great. If not for some details with making the movie it would be close to 1 star. This movie was set up to be great. It had a great story idea that it could build on, but it ended up giving us a big piece of crap ending with no idea of the what we, or maybe just I and the other I saw this with, really wanted to know in the movie...and that is, "What is The Human Project?"...They give us interesting information about getting to a boat to go to The Human Project. But we never get to see it or find out any details of the science side of things. It lacked having some kind of "layers" to it, but instead the story is just said to be, right at the beginning, "...get this pregnant girl to the coast." The main reason why I wanted to see this movie so badly is 1. I wanted to see what the world would possibly be like if there were no babies being born. 2. Why are those babies not being born? They give us #1, but we get nothing close to #2. They had everything going right with the movie, but if they just made it like 40 minutes longer to get us to #2 then this is one of the best movies of the year. Someone's review said, "The ending seems a little abrupt, and leaves something to be desired." That is a perfect way to describe it, but a lot of people say that the ending is holding it back from 10 stars. And then they give it 9. For myself, on the other hand, I want a good ending to tie the movie all together, and this ending just did not cut it for me. This movie could have been monumental and could have ended 2006 with a BIG bang if they just kept giving more to the story. To me, this is one of the biggest disappointment of 2006.