This film should have won Acedemy Awards...

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2010)

A truly excellent film, the producers displayed how cinema should not necessarily be degraded to CGI showcasing and big money. The star of the show is undoubtedly Clint Mansell's haunting soundtrack, as well as Kevin Spacey's excellent voice acting for the robot GERTY, who is the most endearing and convincing non-sentient character I have ever seen in cinema, including HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Go and rent this film. The movie addresses thorny issues, including the potential of corporations to lie and abuse humanity for their own profitable ends and exactly what makes us 'human'. The creators of this film used CGI to the minimum, relying on old-school 'hard' set creation to make the film 'feel' authentic as possible, and this really shows. Positively. My only real criticism of this film is that it has little 'staying power', in that I wouldn't watch it again. However, this is arguably a plus. A simple film with a powerfully delivered message, I do not feel I need to see it again. It was close to perfection. Go and rent this film. NOW.