2067

I wasn't expecting much from this with a 4.7 rating and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. The best Australian movie I've seen. Sure, the acting could have been better, but it was a hell of a lot better than I thought it would be. This movie is definitely worth watching.

Could've been a nice action/mystery sci-fi (maybe not Alien, more like Stargate) - but nooo. They _had to_ make it "artistic": with over-long useless dialogues, main protagonist behaving like spoiled child, constantly moaning, crying and shouting. Good god, how irritating his character that was, what a crybaby. I think they tried to show that he was "sensitive" and "damaged". What a waste. There's this thing to good cinema - show, don't tell. Here, they insisted on talking. And unfortunately, that talk wasn't too great. As for plot holes --- SPOILER SECTION --- 1. they would create a genetic uber-bottleneck -- they're trying to send 30 people to start a new civilization; Toba theory speculates that we've had a genetic bottleneck that once in Earth's history, where (we think) between 10 to 50 thousand people survived some catastrophe globally, and we're all their descendants. but it was over 10k people that survived to repopulate the planet - not mere 30 they're trying to send to the future. 2. also, of those 30, half of chrono-colonists are of no reproductive / colony-building value anymore (age, sickness, being relatives) 3. main character is "subject 14" - what about previous 13? since they've had energy problems in 2060s we can infer they didn't try 13 times already 4. since main character was left alone in 23rd century and only he could control this end of the machine, what was the point of destroying it? he could've used it to send more plants back Crazy credits: "no butterflies were harmed during making of this film" made me smile.