Several Interesting Movies Rolled into One

Rating: 8/10 (5 August 2013)

If your like me, you've read some plot details and say to yourself "this is crap." I was like that for a long time, until my wife put on some previews and I saw there were some futuristic scenes! Very reminiscent of the 'air bikes' of the movie "The Island." So I gave it watch, oh man.. the first 10 minutes I was ready to turn it off. They just threw us into the water with several stories flowing at the same time. It was a mess to make sense of. After I got acquainted with the characters, I tried to understand it, to try and predict where the story was going. Needless to say, the movie kept me hooked from then on out.
The character stories were great, but most of the stories do allude to other works of art (novels and movies) like "One Flew over the Cookoo's Next", Soylent Green references, and then other plot devices where just generic ideas. Like the 'primitive future.' All in all I was hooked, but for me I felt that some pieces could have been developed more. Hey, I stuck it out for 2 hours, give me some closure! More closure could have upped to a 9. Also I had a real bad time understanding the futuristic pidgin English, some subtitles would have been nice.