This movie simply deserves all credit. Breath-taking attention to detail. This film is possibly a comeback for the director Alfonso Cauron after the infamous Harry Potter’s third movie installment which invited harsh reviews for the movie being too dark. However in this, it’s the grimness the clincher.

The dystopian vision of the future, a bare 20 years from now is nothing but total chaos. The world seems to face a biggest crisis of all time - an infertility epidemic. The futuristic London city subsumed by constant threat of terrorist attacks, religious fanaticism shows that the epidemic hysteria is all - pervasive. What really got me liking this movie was the constant stream of advertisements shown in the London city for suicide pills! Political statements are abundant in this movie touching on the current issues of increasing paranoia about immigrants in the UK to the disturbing images of the Abu Gharib prison camps.

All in all, a compelling movie that makes you sit up and watch it time and again, to take in the bits that you seem to have missed the first time around.

January 5th, 2008 Subscribe to the RSS feed!