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06/24/06
Code 46 (2004)
52 %
Reviews Counted: 95 Fresh: 49 Rotten:46 Average Rating: 6/10
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Theatrical Release: 17-09-2004
Synopsis: Set in Shanghai in the near future, CODE 46 takes place in a world where in-vitro fertilization, embryo splitting, and cloning have become so widespread that the government monitors all pregnancies to avoid incestuous births, whether on purpose or accidental. In Michael Winterbottom's... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Jeanne Balibar, Essie Davis
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Screenwriter: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Composer: Free
Screenwriter: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Composer: Free
Reviews
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Winterbottom’s sci-fi romance is in a class of its own. Robbins and Morton [are] clearly in their element here.
09/19/04
Cinematography, production design and music are all top-notch, but the film largely succeeds because of the leads -- two fine actors at the top of their game.
09/18/04
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What keeps Code 46 from living up to its fascinating premise is the lack of empathy we feel for William and Maria. They are almost like benign video game characters.
09/11/06
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08/05/05
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If we’re to believe that these two people are meant to be together, oughtn’t there be some real heat when they are?
05/05/05
Achingly elegiac sci-fi story of love and memory lost - an Oedipal tragedy for the genetically modified age.
10/23/04
Amid the white walls and slick surfaces of this film, the characters seem more like lab rats than human beings.
10/08/04
The film is like bypass surgery: clinically precise but always in control of your heart.
10/06/04
Part thriller, part love story and part political allegory, told as dream noir, but too tangled and slippery to inspire much empathy.
09/30/04
a noir snore with no moral desperation, no clear-cut point-of-view and a love story whose eroticism feels about as urgent as yardwork
09/30/04
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