I agree with the commentator in Sydney that CODE 46 needed "fleshing out," that it was heavy on the atmospheric, impressionistic.
It is bad manners and boring to go into a lot of detail or spoil others' viewing, but there are two and a half things I did not like:
a) At times the dialogue was so subtle, so sotto voce, that I was missing things. My hearing is probably not what it used to be or maybe the print was a tad muddy, but I was in a small house and listening carefully, and this understatement was tough to follow more than once.
b) As said in this site before, I am fed up with injecting skin, and at one point rather a lot of it, to keep Generation X awake in their seats. CODE 46 had three -- count 'em -- three heavy love scenes, about two too many. We know he loved his wife, already!
3) The climax was taken lock, stock, and barrel from a famous "California noir" film. Naturally my lips are sealed.
This film is worth seeing even if, as another commentator said, there is the overly heavy influence of BLADE RUNNER and GATTACA. For one thing, crime doesn't pay, especially if you are a small fish. Moreover, note the social implications/ abuse of new technologies, what an emerging global culture will look like (the espanol and francais being thrown around), and the inhuman gigantism which emerged in the twentieth and will be triumphant in the twenty-first century . . . until, one hopes, refinement settles in after that.
It is bad manners and boring to go into a lot of detail or spoil others' viewing, but there are two and a half things I did not like:
a) At times the dialogue was so subtle, so sotto voce, that I was missing things. My hearing is probably not what it used to be or maybe the print was a tad muddy, but I was in a small house and listening carefully, and this understatement was tough to follow more than once.
b) As said in this site before, I am fed up with injecting skin, and at one point rather a lot of it, to keep Generation X awake in their seats. CODE 46 had three -- count 'em -- three heavy love scenes, about two too many. We know he loved his wife, already!
3) The climax was taken lock, stock, and barrel from a famous "California noir" film. Naturally my lips are sealed.
This film is worth seeing even if, as another commentator said, there is the overly heavy influence of BLADE RUNNER and GATTACA. For one thing, crime doesn't pay, especially if you are a small fish. Moreover, note the social implications/ abuse of new technologies, what an emerging global culture will look like (the espanol and francais being thrown around), and the inhuman gigantism which emerged in the twentieth and will be triumphant in the twenty-first century . . . until, one hopes, refinement settles in after that.