Chicago (the city) is a Character in this movie!

Rating: 7/10 (27 November 2012)

Liked the movie.
Chicago...is another "character" so to speak. The digital 2035 Chicago skyline includes leave some of the ACTUAL futuristic buildings (like the Hancock and Sears towers. They realistically leave some of the late Victorian buildings and such in the residential and fringe Loop areas intermingled.
Probably they could have pushed the Chicago architecture's cutting edge even further...but I am grateful for some attention to Chicago's fabulous downtown cutting edge architecture.
A few other films have suggested Chicago's long history (at least since the huge 1877 Chicago fire) in setting building trends...where you go to work past archaic buildings which were new to your great grandparent immigrants, which are juxtaposed to Mies Van der Rohe mid 20th Century skyscrapers, which are nearby the still cutting edge Sears Tower or 333 North Wacker buildings which will still look modern to your children.
There is a precedent for the Chicago architecture influence as a futurist look...The 1927 futuristic German film METROPOLIS has a painted skyscraper background which--generically--replicates the overall look of early Chicago concrete and steel skyscrapers...so there is precedent for relying on the underused...but so rich in texture and past/future juxtapositions that are regularly seen in Chicago.