sevenhelz

SPOILER warning for anyone who gives a damn. Which you shouldn't. Really.
It's all in no particular order.

Obvious plot holes:

1) You're clones. How can nature possibly have "found a way"? The only way nature can change anything about us is by changing our genes, which happens through the mixing of DNA when we reproduce. Which you don't do. Idiots.

1a) Also, if the bad guy killed all the pregnant women already, how can you be so sure that "nature will find a way" once you destroy the big doodad where you put all the clones back in circulation?

2) If they burnt the library, that doesn't necessarily mean they found the lab. Any sensible person would actually, you know, check this?

3) How does she get down from that ridiculously high thing the first time? Conveniently, you didn't show us this, but at the end she has to crash it and miraculously swings down unharmed. Right.

4) You have four guns. Three of your shooters get killed. They have about fourty guns. Aeon is running in a straight line. SHE DOES NOT SURVIVE. REALLY.

5) If nature has taken over outside the wall, how come it hasn't tried to get in? And why do all the trees appear to be oak (in the admittedly fuzzy shot you give us for all of two seconds)?

6) So the bad guy gave information to the rebels, right? How? Weren't they just a little suspicious that after hundreds of years of trying, suddenly something drops in their lap? Where are all the other rebels anyway? How does the whole "handler" thing work? You can't just expect their mysterious nature to explain away all of this crap - you've got to know yourself how it works, even if you don't show us. This just looked badly thought out.

7) Rebels, if you could take out the government's means of watching you that easily, WHY DIDN'T YOU DO IT SOONER!?!

8) How come a guard of the most important government building has an earpiece apparently unconnected to the rest of the security team, but that will tell any wearer how to get anywhere within said building?

Random idiotic bits:

Main character: Rahh, I have come back four hundred years after everyone else, and lo! I shall be goth, for this provides the most skin tight and alluring costumes without me having to actually reveal anything, or wear any clothes I might actually look comfortable in.

All characters: We shall speak in monotone, for this is a serious film about serious things. Feel the seriousness that comes with complete lack of sincerity or emotion.
I mean, they have Pete Posslethwaite! And his best (monotone) line is "I knew your strength would come back with you" - this to a woman who's managed to give us about three crappy fight scenes and stand around looking worried a lot. Hurrah for strength.

All underlings: We shall follow whichever leader happens to be in the room, despite having been told specifically that this bloke is a rebel and a traitor and indeed ordered to shoot on sight. But, since we're rebelling against the leaders of the coup anyway, we wont bother to actually go out and fight with the old leaders, we'll just hand them a few guns and stay here like the scaredy-cat idiots we are. Woot.

This could have been such a good film. The storyline isn't bad, obvious plot holes aside. It's beautifully done, when it comes to mis-en-scene (background, set and props to you oiks). But the fight scenes in what should be an action film are poo. And why DOES she run in straight bloody lines all the time? She's supposed to be the best the rebels have? The acting is crap, everyone looks uncomfortable in their costumes, there don't appear to be any real relationships (although I couldn't decide at one point if Una was Aeon's sister or her lover, so there must've been something there) and it's basically just poo. Also, I spilt my popcorn when watching it and was in a bad mood for the rest of it. So there.
I think the best part was the pointy grass. It pointed at any movement around it, and apparently could go straight through shoes. Well it was implied anyway 8-) There should've been more pointy grass.
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