Imagine you've seen Children of Men. And you liked the post apocalyptic
setting, and you liked the idea of this washed up, morally ambiguous man
protecting this pregnant girl, and getting her from point A to point B. But you
couldn't help thinking it was all a bit wussy. It needs more guns, you think.
It needs explosions. It needs extreme sports. It needs martial arts. It needs
car chases. What do you do?
You call Vin Diesel, of course!
So, what this is, is your standard schlocky post-Cyberpunk thriller. Dodgy
geezer is hired to do dodgy job, by dodgy people, and unexpectedly grows a
conscience somewhere along the line, and rebels at the end at the standard
"give me the baby to eat and I will let you live and give you a million
dollars" moment.
It's not a bad one, it's grim, gritty, nicely actiony, heartlessly cruel in the
right places. It's not very intelligent, and pulls the "if we don't explain the
end, it makes us look cleverer, and saves us having to think up an ending"
trick. Beyond that problem, not so bad.
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