Children of incoherent plots and long camera takes

Rating: 2/10 (15 October 2007)

I found the film to be an incoherent mess with a ludicrous plot, contrived action, and an unfulfilling ending. The film leaves out so much background material that the viewer is forced to pick it up in little stashed vignettes of article snippets, TV commercials, billboards, etc. Cute but not too effective and not convincing. Why has the world gone wacko? What's the issue with immigrants? Doesn't make any sense: In a world without children, you're going to need lots of cheap labor and, hey, that means immigrants! So, you have the wacko world subplot and the immigrant subplot and a black new world virgin Mary main plot. Interesting that little animals are still running around in the middle of this eco-disaster. So the rebels need to concoct a dangerous and elaborate ruse to kill off one of their own that could all too easily have killed the precious child just to later use the child as some kind of political rallying point?!? No one buys that illogic, except as an excuse for a very long camera take. And oh yeah, lets parade the baby past 100 armed soldiers who are just too dazzled to, lets say, grab all involved? Must have been the blood-spattered camera lens on the way into the building. And that ending...certainly summed up the movie for me: Lost at sea in a fog with a dead captain and a possible Bermuda Triangle-like ghost ship to the rescue.