Caught this last night on Film4. Not sure what to make of it really, other than it wasn't particularly good and that I will not be watching it again. Part logan's run, part Matrix, part footloose - a hotchpotch that didn't work for me. Christian Bale is wasted in the lead role - he looked confused himself at times as to what was going on and why. I stuck with it though, but began to laugh during the gun slapping scene with the 'father' at the end. I didn't care what happened to anyone in this film, or the ridiculously permanently stoned society.
Hard core sci-fi fans may have something else to say on it, but I wouldn't even be bothered wasting a few hours on a Sunday night with it.
Originally posted by brother benny: Caught this last night on Film4. Not sure what to make of it really, other than it wasn't particularly good and that I will not be watching it again. Part logan's run, part Matrix, part footloose - a hotchpotch that didn't work for me. Christian Bale is wasted in the lead role - he looked confused himself at times as to what was going on and why. I stuck with it though, but began to laugh during the gun slapping scene with the 'father' at the end. I didn't care what happened to anyone in this film, or the ridiculously permanently stoned society.
Hard core sci-fi fans may have something else to say on it, but I wouldn't even be bothered wasting a few hours on a Sunday night with it.
I thought it was a great film, I think the point of it was you weren't supposed to care about them - they were emotionless, and the ones who weren't were drained by it all.
Bale was fantastic as always, I think with a bit more money injected into this film it could've been a mega hit
I really don't think any more money could have saved this film. Besides, look like they wasted a hell of a lot of money on it as it is.
The fight scenes were particularly boring. Given the lack of a plausible plot, the fight scenes should have been the action points of the film that kept the interest up. It was just that stupid over done Matrix fighting again.
I know they were emotionless, but Bale's transition from emotionless enforcer to sense criminal didn't ring through. Bale is a good actor, but he had next to nothing to work with here.
I'm sorry to disagree with you on this one, but I don't believe there is anyway this film could have been a 'mega hit'.
Seen it twice, it's a rather odd movie but still watchable
But if Christian wasn't in it, it wouldn't have been very good
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I think it was a very good film myself,the budget for the film was very low and alot of the sets you see in the film are real buildings in Germany and some in Russia i think which gives it a really cold feeling.
I really liked this film.. I guess I am drawn into it because I sort of like the idea of a cold unemotional world so completely different to ours. I dont like the way our world is because people are so unpredictable.
To put it briefly, this is a poor man's Matrix. It's a bad fusion of jaded ideas and themes. Even Bale looks completly perplexed throughout. The action scenes are the usual Matrix hand slapping and mid air twisting. I found the whole thing very unsatisfactory, so much so, that I stood up for the first time in ten years and went upstairs to bed.
Beware of the womb people 
