Entertaining but superficial

Rating: 6/10 (2 September 2007)

Make a movie about a subject everyone has an opinion, especially one that's in current news, and some will be blown away purely by relevance and others will gawk at it's ignorance of the depth of the matter.
Make no mistake, this is an entertainment flick that has little depth and merely uses bad news as the background, this is the spectacle everyone seems to be praising as insight. This is hardly the case however.
The movie at times has some poor acting, in your face explanation of what the audience should know (exposition) and half baked ideas about the premise. On the positive side the cinematography is great, and there's some electric action.
Don't mistake this movie as intelligent or insightful, it has the ring of a load of mates down the pub going what if this and what if that. Instead as usual, the sci-fi genre has been used as a vehicle for spectacle with the same level of sensation over content that goes on everywhere in the media today.