Thoroughly Enjoyed This

Rating: 10/10 (25 November 2012)

I watched this movie, as I read the thousand and more people comment and I sat dumbfounded at why anyone would rate this as a poor movie.
It is pure entertainment. And with entertainment, I have learned that all movie plots are not perfect. They never please absolutely everything and the ones for whom it is not a pleasure always seem to find the time to berate and belittle the movie.
I have been around for 56+ on this earth and I cannot underestimate the number of movies, the thousands upon thousands I have seen.
This does not make me an expert on movies. But I must say it does make me understand the medium much better than most people. I doubt, seriously doubt that even 1% of the reviewers on here have seen movies from the entire 134 years which moving pictures have been made. Of course I haven't seen all of them. That would be ludicrous to claim. But I know what movies are, and what they can be...
And this movie was a truly good one. It was engaging, thought-provoking, took you in, you care for the characters, you ever so curiously found your way around a plot and there was action, suspense, intrigue and solid Hollywood ending. I challenge anyone to explain away the contrary.
Science fiction is a thoughtful medium. In movies, it cannot ever be what we read in a book. That is nearly impossible. This science fiction movie, while dystopian in nature, managed to have a heart, a premise and a plausible resolution. Was it perfect? I dare say, no movie has really come close - not even the greatest of them. After all, we imperfect beings are the creators of them. And because of this imperfection, our intrinsic realities will come to surface in them all.
This movie was no exception. And it held my attention throughout and worked out it's intricacies and machinations in my mind - but it was not perfect. A perfect movie would get a rating of 11.
None has ever gotten that from me. So I gave it a solid 10.