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Gattaca (1997)
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Confidently conceived and brilliantly executed, Gattaca had a somewhat low profile release in 1997, but audiences and critics hailed the film's originality. It's since been recognized as one of the most intelligent science fiction films of the 1990s. Writer-director Andrew Niccol, the talented New Zealander who also wrote the acclaimed Jim Carrey vehicle The Truman Show, depicts a near-future society in which one's personal and professional destiny is determined by one's genes. In this society, "Valids" (genetically engineered) qualify for positions at prestigious corporations, such as Gattaca, which grooms its most qualified...
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| Gattaca Movie Review by BillyBob (1/5/2008) |
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Yawn-City!
Here we go again with,yet, another crummy(yes,crummy) look at the future. I don't know about you,but I think these (supposedly) 'brilliant', set-in-the-future brainstorms that the film-industry keeps coming up with just get stupider and stupider by the minute. They do.
Of course,a ton of money went into the...
(complete Gattaca review by BillyBob)
There is nothing quite like a future based on custom building a child by means of genetic enhancement and alteration. Imagine you could determine the sex, height, health, eye color and hair color. Do those last two things sound familiar? Well they are two of the desired traits of children bred into the Arian nation. Yes...
(complete Gattaca review by The Alpha Craig)
| Gattaca Movie Review by Lisa (11/9/2007) |
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2 big thumbs up for Andrew Niccol, this movie provided me with much entertainment.
Set in a future where natural births have gone the way of the Dodo to make way for the genetically modified super babies, free from birth defects and hereditary diseases. Ethan Hawk however was squeezed out the old fashioned way and...
(complete Gattaca review by Lisa)
An intense and very cool movie that looks at what the future could, and might, look like.
Former marrieds Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman star as two people allowed into the world created for the perfect elite. However Hawke's character is really pretending to be another man (Jude Law in a brilliant star-making turn) as he...
(complete Gattaca review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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