Some Flaws - But Excellent Fun Movie

Rating: 5/10 (7 January 2007)

Interesting movie and fun to watch; although lacking any form of consistency in its four part vignettes. Yes that's right so easy to read that there were four different writers and two different people cutting the film. "What am I watching?, Guys, next time you work on a film it may be helpful to read what the person ahead of you has written. Also some unanswered questions: You know you are going to just going to have to let go of logic when they state 4 times at the beginning of the film that the youngest child 18 years, 10 months, etc has died; then cut right to a scene of Clive Owens nephew playing with a holographic Rubeck's cube; who is like 15 going on 16. How is it again that; no one realized 18 > 16??? Puzzled me. Just keep telling yourself they will explain it soon, uh-no, they don't.
(a) "Remember that ringing you hear in your ears", Julian Moore says to Clive Owen. (well what specifically, why say it if there was no point in using it at the end of the movie with some tie in?) I would have ended the movie with him actually hearing the ringing instead of moaning and maybe have him remember his own son, instead of moaning like he was about to fart his pants.
(b) Why was Kee housed in the barn with the cows?, More important, why were animals able to continue reproducing; young kittens, calves, but humans  uh, no? (c) It must have started with a shoestring budget, when there were "cheap and tacky" cut and paste putting some scroll signs on a London bus; this looked horrible; if you have to show bad; show nothing.
(d) Then part two cut by editor number two here's 20 million dollars to blow them out of their seats! Fantastic war footage, but how did all those refugees; most of them Arab, get to the UK; where the crap were they coming from there's not exactly a border between Fuji and Great Britian. Perhaps a map; next time you write something or at least an explanation for how they were getting there and then trying desperately to escape that horrible Aushwitz village.
(e) Let's have some folk starving, but ignorant, "hello"; more animals cast in this two hour hoe-down, than were on Old McDonald's Farm. Eat them people! Go see it! Loved It!!!! Four stars!!