1. NF123

   8

   Entertaining, thought provoking and has a truly beautiful score. OK not really a masterpiece but a film I could recommend to people who like hard science fiction and are sick of the Avatars, and Star wars which have been polluting the Science Fictilon Genre with pure stupidity and Flashing, bright lights.… Expand

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2. RichardS.

   4

   As others have posted, this is a mix of Blade Runner, Gattaca, Cypher, Eternal Sunshine, Solaris etc - but it's nothing like as good as any of those films. The sci-fi elements are poorly developed and go nowhere. Everything is subsumed within the central "romance". I use inverted commas as the relationship between Morton and Robbins is hideous. There is zero chemistry, which is hardly surprising since both actors specialise in flatlining performances (I really like Morton - I have been a fan since she was a kid in an episode of Cracker in the early 90s, but really, these shaven-headed, sleepy-eyed, dozy performances are getting annoying now...). The sex scenes between Morton and Robbins made me gag - since there is no chemstry or spark between the couple, and absolutely no sex appeal, it's hard to see them "get passionate" on a regular basis - it was all wrong. Don't get me wrong, this film could have worked, with a better cast, or more particularly, a different leading man. The sci-fi elements should also have been more clearly addressed. I should add I liked the soundtrack - very similar to Solaris tho not as good. The direction was also very good (though Greengrass' obsession with hand-held cameras is tiring), shame he couldn't tell a better story.… Expand

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3. IvanJ.

   1

   Honestly, one of the worst films I've seen in the last five years. Utterly fails to redeem its promise. It's beautifully shot - I mean, gorgeously - but the problems are legion and sink it before it's half over. The central issue is (as others here have noted) that the couple at the film's heart makes absolutely no sense. There's zero chemistry between Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton, so there's also zero logic to their ostensibly rapid descent into obsession. Morton is just awful, here, and the sex scenes in particular were hard to take. (Tim Robbins is likeable, but the character is underwritten, giving him little to work with but a single bit of shtick that is old the second time you see it.) The worst thing is that Code 46 insists, every thirty seconds or so, on reminding you of all the vastly superior films it's derived from and to the position of which it so clearly wishes to aspire - Alphaville, Gattaca, and (Tarkovsky's) Solaris in particular. Awful, simply awful.… Expand

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