Code 46 (DVD)

A charismatic corporate investigator is flown to Shanghai, where a company making medical ID / visa pass thingies are witnessing fatally doled out forgeries among their output. He instantly finds the culprit, but does nothing other than let her off, and fall in love with her... This sounds like a reasonable scenario for a film that's both small-scale and globetrotting, and that's just what it is. It's very quietly science fiction - in that it's not Alien 6 meets The Matrix. You might enjoy the film without any concerns about its futuristic setting, although it is important, as we can see by dissecting our opening paragraph. *Charismatic...* Tim ...

Intelligent British science fiction isn't a term heard particularly often these days. In fact, dumb British science fiction isn't really heard of either. Simply put, for some reason the British film industry backs away from the whole genre, which is a shame, although when a unique piece does manage to break through, it does make it all the more special. Code 46 is such a piece, although before one can appreciate it for what it is, one has to accept that pretty much everything within this film has been done before. So much of it being lifted from elsewhere may be annoying in many films, but Code 46 takes its basis from some of the intelligent sci-fi greats; ...