Bad basis for story

Rating: 1/10 (31 October 2006)

I had high hopes for this film before seeing it, however after about 15 minutes I knew we were on a downhill slide.
The background of the story (the idea that humankind has become infertile) was always a bit far-fetched. There were other overtones, such as Bush's influence (which seems improbable considering that the film is set a number of years into the future), which made the whole endeavour look silly.
One thing I will highly commend this film on is the scenery, a well-done fusion of Britain with a pre-1990 Eastern Bloc influence. The attention to detail in the portrayal of the destruction, decay and rot that visited British society was simply superb. Broken lifts, windows falling out, people living in scrapped buses - very well done indeed.
On the whole I found the film monotonous and boring. I felt little personal empathy with any of the characters, in fact it was hard to decide who was even good or bad. None of the characters made any substantial development from the first few minutes of the film - we knew little if anything about any of them that we didn't already know at the beginning. Many of the confrontational scenes went on too long, we were none the wiser for seeing them for 5 minutes instead of one.
I found this film tedious and could not wait for it to be over.