Andrew Niccol directs Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law in this sci-fi set in the future where career options and opulent lifestyle are the privilege only of the genetically perfect.

Beautiful looking movie from the writer of The Truman Show. Future noir. Sleek yet brutalist. Almost the opposite of high concept as the plot would take a few sentence to do justice. It isn’t perfect. It feels a little too much like a calling card spec script that got greenlit on the first draft. And it is more of a mystery than a romp. A mystery with no real enigmas. To wit the characters remain cyphers. Pieces on a board moving towards a rigged end game. Still, I have youthful nostalgia for Gattaca.

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Perfect Double Bill: Never Let Me Go (2010)