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What is this movie's message? That perfect people can be flawed because they are human? That the will of the human heart is equal to that of human desire? That there is no perfect utopia? All of these things and more make up a jumbled movie that is completely uninteresting.
At the beginning, our hero (Ethan Hawke) tells us that he was concieved naturally, that is natural sex and love from his parents. But this is the future. Such people are looked down upon as inbreds because they're not perfectly genetically coded by DNA. His younger brother is genetically perfect, so he is more favored.
Hawke's ambition is to get into space. But he can't because he's an imbred. So he devises a way to fool everyone. First, he finds a guy he almost looks like (Jude Law). Then he does things like swap urine and blood samples so he can go work for a big company. He even has his legs cut down to size. But a murder occurs and one of his eyelashes is found. Police go on the siege trying to find the matching DNA from the eyelash. And because every movie needs a babe, he meets Uma Thurman so he can tell her how bad his life is and how much he wants to go to space.
Genetically perfect life is possible. This movie is improbable. By the time you're half way through it, you just want it to get over with. You hear so much about what Hawke has gone through to make it in a society that rejects him, and how he feels somewhat greater than that society because he has risen above all of them that you're ill from all the talk. You just want him to get on the rocket ship and leave just so he'll stop annoying you.
You could watch it for a murder/mystery. But so little time is covered on it, you might as well just skip the entire movie.
P.C.
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