It's a pity, because the concept was a good one (the proof is that a similar movie, The Children of Men, was a great success). But it was completely messed up by bad acting, a bad script, and a feeling of total disrespect for the audience. To give you just one example: there is a lot of product placement (advertisments) in the movie for Canon, Coca-Cola and Motorola. The director defends himself by saying that in the future our world will be swamped with commercial ads. While this is probably true, it does not explain why there are no "competitive" ads. You see Coca-Cola all the time, but never Pepsi. Everybody has Motorola, but nobody uses Nokia.
Another big disappointment is the fact that Matthieu Kassovitz, the director, started his career with a movie that attacked all this commercialization (La Haine). And now he delivers mediocre movies with no soul. A real shame.
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