A poignant and moving film that requires a couple of viewings

Rating: 8/10 (21 January 2010)

This film is nominally in the sci-fi genre but it belongs to those films in the genre that merely use the sci-fi setting to explore issues about life and humanity, films such as Silent Running, Solaris (the original version at least) or even to some extent Bladerunner (but without the action of the latter). It has very little in common with large budget action style sci-fi in the vein of Star Trek, Star Wars and so on.
Speaking personally, I found the film to require two viewings to really appreciate some of its subtleties. After the second viewing I concluded that this is a moving portrayal of the maintenance of human dignity in the face of corporate cruelty. The corporate cruelty element is very obvious. The human dignity element emerges more gently during the film as the interactions between the clones evolves and they learn to show love and compassion towards each other despite their situation.
And I agree with other comments that the acting is excellent.