Undescribable Perfection

Overrated and overhyped

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This movie is nothing less than an inspiration for all the people to strive to their maximal potential and surpass it. The idea in the movie is also surreal, we are getting closer to human DNA editing, its just a matter of time some trust deems it safe and effective and mandatory.

This ingenious and intricately plotted story brings to mind the motto of the few who flew in former days. Truly gripping and romantic. A genetically challenged adventurer, Ethan Hawke, who has been randomly conceived, inspires his alter ego, a failed suicide played by Jude Law, to make a success of his death. It is relatively easy to eliminate racism. But the problem discussed in this film is how do you eliminate competition ? Astronauts compete for their place on a space crew. How could they not ? The answer proposed by this stylish story appears to be that they should cheat. It's only in Wonderland that everyone is given a prize for running in a caucus race, presumably all hitting the finishing tape in a dead straight line.However the tale is stimulating, moving and touching. Uma Thurman presents an unusually beautiful and elegant presence. The sets are highly stylish: neo-Corbusier buildings, with personnel reminding me of the pictures of Magritte. The crew prepare for their launch wearing double-breasted suits, neatly worn shirts and ties. Ernest Borgnine appears in a downbeat role. Gore Vidal is a skittish heavyweight. It is disconcerting that the final urine test is not automated, and approval is left to an old-fashioned human factor. While it is possible that Vincent will not return from his Titanic excursion, he may nevertheless have left a little ex-genetically engineered souvenir on his home planet.

Film Review: "Gattaca" (1997)Overstepped by films as "The Full Monty" and "Good Will Hunting" (both 1997) in Academy Award category for Best Picture at the 70th Oscars ceremony, Author Director Andrew Niccol, with the age of 32, delivers a visionary science-fiction film that had been backed by Danny DeVito's production company Jersey Films and picked up by Columbia Pictures for distribution.I can only recommend to watch this picture in the best available quality concerning picture and sound, preferably on a certified-projected movie theater's canvas with a digital surround sound system. Already the opening credits promise a feast for the senses with a man cleaning parts of his body in extreme close-up slow-motion shots captured by cinematography Slawomir Idziak.The beyond emotional extra-classy original score by composer Michael Nyman creates sensual thrills in awe. Actor Ethan Hawke as feeling-incomplete, struggling character of Vincent Freeman in near-future society, where the human gene decides, which occupation one receives in life. Incapable to settle on his fate, Vincent infiltrates the Gattaca Space Programm with stolen DNA probes from crippled character Jerome Morrow, performed with pin-pointing beat work by Jude Law.Together they create on-screen work relationship that is unique in motion picture history, before Vincent encounters other character as Irene, portrayed by Uma Thurman as calmly receivable "Gattaca" superior favored one, in a labyrinth-suspense-pushing film noir scenario; even further ascending tension points when murder strikes at the space program training center.By the end "Gattaca" becomes the balanced science-fiction film of a generation; a picture, we can even closer relate to nowadays, where Bio-mechanical cell engineering has become reality and the digitized world of today pushes society of tomorrow to achieve, to strive and fulfill the tasks given under immense pressure of constant floating borders of social status.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I just watched this film again tonight. It's truly incredible. It's hard to believe that this film isn't in the top 250 of IMDb considering that most people who have seen it agree that it's a great film (at least from my experience). The film has excellent performances, beautiful production design and cinematography, a great script, and fantastic direction. Many ideas in this film are genius and gives the film a bit of a Terry Gilliam vibe at times. Nothing wrong with that of course. It's a tragic yet beautiful depiction of the future and the best science fiction film of the 90s. Kicks Terminator 2 in the ass.