An OK movie, neutral experience, nothing so special

Rating: 5/10 (18 August 2010)

This movie is good enough, if you have to kill time. It's not a bad movie, but it must have made it to top 250 movies because of its political appeal to the reviewers, not because of any cinematographic achievements. It's a political statement, for an imaginary political situation. I think part of the appeal to some people is, that they see the real world in the way the movie, thus they can better relate to the characters.
As a movie it's just an average Hollywood movie. In the special effects and in ways of shooting the scenes, it borrows from some earlier benchmark movies, but looses in quality to them. The plot is far from mind blowing and has no big surprises. Just what you would expect as you watch it.
My guess is that you will like it more if you are politically to the left and like the idea of having to fight for your idea i.e. like political activism. And you better not like Christianity, as in the movie Christianity is referred through a Hitler like dictator and a corrupt pedophile bishop.