A lot of good pieces that never seemed to make a good whole.

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2007)

I was taken with the premise of the movie, a chaotic, xenophobic and doomed future world where women can no longer conceive, and the plot, the attempt to rescue the single pregnant woman on the planet. The acting was good, particularly relative newcomer Claire-Hope Ashitey in the role of the pregnant Kee. The scenery was gritty and convincing. And there were a lot of pieces in the lives of the characters that should have made be believe these people cared about each other and made me care about them. But it never quite got there. Part of the problem I felt was the lack of connectivity with the background. I kept asking how the chaos in the streets and cruel xenophobia connected with failure of humanity to procreate? It was never explained. It was just there. An interesting disappointment, but a disappointment just the same.