Or, at least, that's what it felt like at many points in the film. At others I was traumatized by the horrid spectre of "Cleopatra 2525", "The Island" and any number of other sub-par sci-fi movies of recent, and not-so-recent years.
To be fair, the first third of the movie is the worst. After that it becomes bearable, but those first 30 minutes or so are hard work. The rebels (who one presumes wish to avoid attention) prance around in long leather coats whilst everyone else is dressed normally. Later, Aeon ditches this look to wear a bright white bodysuit. Hardly inconspicuous.
And what's with the technology? We learn that, for the past 400 years, people have just been cloned because humanity is infertile. And for all those years, they've been working on a cure, only discovered as the story opens. OK, so they can't cure infertility, but they have managed to invent message pills, have hands transplanted to where you should have feet and generally improved the human physique to be able to perform superhuman feats of strength, balance and speed. What's wrong with this picture? How dense do they think the viewers really are? Other questions arise, such as "What happens to Goodchild every time he is reborn?" Does he get plucked away from anonymous parents in the night to be raised as leader all over again? Am I the only person to notice these glaring plot craters? More answers are needed to make this a complete world, but the movie only provides more questions and precious few (and only the obvious, already guessed) answers.
Given some of the reviews here, I'm not even sure if having seen the series would have helped much. The movie seems to be little like the show (good old Hollywood!).
In the end, I was just glad it was over.
To be fair, the first third of the movie is the worst. After that it becomes bearable, but those first 30 minutes or so are hard work. The rebels (who one presumes wish to avoid attention) prance around in long leather coats whilst everyone else is dressed normally. Later, Aeon ditches this look to wear a bright white bodysuit. Hardly inconspicuous.
And what's with the technology? We learn that, for the past 400 years, people have just been cloned because humanity is infertile. And for all those years, they've been working on a cure, only discovered as the story opens. OK, so they can't cure infertility, but they have managed to invent message pills, have hands transplanted to where you should have feet and generally improved the human physique to be able to perform superhuman feats of strength, balance and speed. What's wrong with this picture? How dense do they think the viewers really are? Other questions arise, such as "What happens to Goodchild every time he is reborn?" Does he get plucked away from anonymous parents in the night to be raised as leader all over again? Am I the only person to notice these glaring plot craters? More answers are needed to make this a complete world, but the movie only provides more questions and precious few (and only the obvious, already guessed) answers.
Given some of the reviews here, I'm not even sure if having seen the series would have helped much. The movie seems to be little like the show (good old Hollywood!).
In the end, I was just glad it was over.