This movie is hype!

Rating: 7/10 (12 January 2007)

First off, let me say that this movie has a top proved top notch director and some top notch actors. The premise is intriguing and I was looking forward to seeing this film.
There has been a lot of hype that this is the next Blade Runner.
This movie makes Code46 look like a masterpiece.
It's all hype and people trying to make you think you should like this. Forget all the rave reviews and judge the movie on it's own merit.
I am not going to throw in any specific spoilers here. I knew the movie would be very dark and not have an optimistic tone which is fine by me. However, the characters are throw away. There is zero sympathy built for any of the characters and I didn't care what happened to them. In fact, I didn't care what happened to the world in this obnoxiously filmed movie overusing hand cams and making the future look the present.
The ending of the movie is so anti-climatic and ridiculously inane that it makes you wonder how this movie got the green light.
For the life of me I cannot figure out where the $80 million was spent. It looks like 2 million was spent on the movie and $78 million was handed over to critics to say how great the movie is.
There are better episodes of the Outer Limits and a similar episode exploring the same themes done much better.
I gave the movie a 5 out of ten which is generous only because of what the movie tried to accomplish. Unfortunately, it falls way short of being anything great.
If by any chance you are watching it because of the references to Blade Runner then skip this one and watch Blade Runner again which was a dark toned movie about the future done right.