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Gattaca
PG (SINGAPORE)
1998
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Average Rating
3.5
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1.5
You have to admire Niccols humanizing agenda in movie terrain usually crowded with numbing technology and digital stereo explosions. But jeez, what a ..
Out Magazine
3.0
type Movie Current Status In Season performer Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Xander Berkeley, Jude Law, Maya Rudolph, Blair Underwood, Gore Vidal director ..
EW
4.4
Everybody will live longer, look better and be healthier in the Gattacan world.But will it be as much fun
Rogerebert
4.0
For all its genre hopping (science fiction, mystery, love story, socio political exploration), Gattaca never gets away from itself; its firmly rooted ..
3.8
But overall Niccol has done a fine, restrained job in a genre for which many of us have lowered our expectations.
San Francisco Chronicle
2.5
Its not only refreshing, it proves that his lifelong irreverence has not been a pose.Unfortunately, Hawke is weak.
San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
Yearning the hearts desire is one of the things that what makes us human.
Spirituality And Practice
4.4
As a result, Gattaca doesnt just function as a science fiction thriller, but as both a cautionary tale about the dangers of letting scientific ability ..
ReelViews
4.0
Just an eerily attractive, sleekly costumed cast in a stylish, cooly intelligent throwback to the Twilight Zone era of deeply serious science fiction.
Tv Guide
4.4
This superb widescreen film (with its many huge, empty shots) looks beautiful on its new DVD, and the package contains deleted scenes but lacks a dire ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.0
Hunter has a knack for physical comedy and gives a hilarious performance a best supporting actress kind of performance..Delroy Lindo, better suited as ..
4.0
This isnt a prediction for the future, it is a simple human truth.
Lariat
3.0
But its hard to make a movie about a sterile society with sterile characters and not come up with some pretty sterile performances.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.5
This is adult sci fi, the sort of picture which is about believable characters living in the very near future as an outgrowth of experiments actually ..
Internet Reviews
4.4
The acting from everyone is great, with Thurman giving a wonderfully cold performance, and Hawke creating a character who has been beaten down by the ..
Internet Reviews
3.0
The performances are rock solid, the production values impeccable, and the script well stocked with supporting characters who have a chance to learn a ..
Internet Reviews
4.5
Written and directed by Andrew Niccol (writer of The Truman Show), GATTACAs is a simple story, pared to its bare essentials and no more, brilliant in ..
3.8
Sicario: Day of the Soldado Throughout Sicario: Day of the Soldado, characters talk about things needing to be clean, which pretty much means that a l ..
Q Network
3.5
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Salon
2.0
Its chiefly a tense head vs. heart struggle with Hawke, ironically, almost blandly perfect and Laws bitter cripple the most exciting performance.
Empire
4.0
Gattaca is a case of plenty of style, no substance, despite its clever intentions.
3.8
More prudish viewers may find the bloody action repugnant, but the gruesome, almost cartoonish, nature of the violence is exactly what makes Verhoeven ..
Mr Brown Movies
4.5
As uncomplicated as it is, however, it doesnt let the viewer off easy.
Flickfilosopher
2.5
The Curse of La Llorona cast members Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez and Linda Cardellini, along with director Michael Chaves, share some personal La ..
Calendar Live
1.5
Unfortunately, given his stoic, almost autonomic nature, we dont really care.
Hollywood Reporter
3.8
Niccol is a talented storyteller who succeeds in balancing arresting style and provocative substance, even if he is a little uneven about it.
Spliced Wire
4.5
Though the movie itself can be a bit of a riddle, Cornish comes up with her own powerful statement about the fragility of youth.
Herald Sun
3.8
A wayward eyelash of Vincents (not Jeromes) is found and the cops believe they are close to finding the murderer.It sounds a lot like a sci fi thrille ..
Movie Habit
0.0
Look, the real wonder of WW84 is that this maybe isnt the worst thing about it.
Film Freak Central
4.0
And yet, in a character study project, hes an astoundingly remarkable protagonist.
4.5
A fascinating sci fi drama that has stood the test of time with ease. The dense, romantic, somber atmosphere fits perfectly with the eerie topic that ..
You Tube
3.8
Yet its still is visually interesting in the way it creates a believable futuristic society.This is a very good, intelligent film that warns us agains ..
Montreal Film Journal
3.5
Despite its flaws, this is still a fascinating story, and adequate performances by Hawke, Law, and Uma Thurman.
Film Quips Online
3.8
It is a step in the right direction for the sci fi genre, being more cerebral than visceral.
Scifi Movie Page
1.5
I didnt care enough about Hawkes character to ignore a big problem in the storys logic: if this future has such incredible biotechnology, why cant Law ..
Chicago Reader
3.0
A well directed, visually stunning morally complex tale. There is no gene for a good movie.
Film Blather
3.5
GOP rips Cuomo for America was never that great Gov. Andrew Cuomo was under siege by his political opponents Thursday after he said a day earlier that ..
Rochester Goes Out
4.5
The dialogue is crisp but somewhat flat as it doesnt have the ability to take advantage of the surround speakers.
FlickDirect
3.1
Designer babies rule dystopia in stylish SF thriller filled with recycled plot devices.
Globe and Mail
3.5
A high tech version of 1984, and is all the more scary because of our rapidly advancing technology that makes the film not seem so farfetched.
Gost Dog
3.0
A slick future not too outlandish to be unbelievable, Gattaca is interesting, intelligent, but mild, entertainment if you can survive the blandness.
Apollo Guide
4.0
It is not a film, honestly, that does much of anything to reach outside of its genre roots Gattaca rewards you richly for liking this kind of science ..
Reviews Antagony Ecstasy
3.8
Its three leads are all engaging and well written, and its attention to detail enhances the film in ways big budget special effects cant.
Cine Matter
2.0
Its a little ironic that his film, which boasts such an impressive art house pedigree, has turned out as pallid and programmatic as the future world i ..
Deep Focus
3.8
A spare, intelligent thriller from first time writer director Andrew Niccol.
4.5
Like all good movies, regardless of genre, Gattaca relies on solid storytelling rather than lazily hoping to distract you with great visuals and speci ..
Orcasound
4.5
A modern sci fi classic comes home to high def in a gorgeous new transfer.
Reelz Channel
2.0
Its chiefly a tense head vs. heart struggle with Hawke, ironically, almost blandly perfect and Laws bitter cripple the most exciting performance.
Empire Online
1.5
But Gattaca operates better on world building and conceptual levels than on narrative terms.
Deep Focus Review
1.5
Gingerbread doesnt rise, but yawns Embeth Davidtz and Kenneth Branagh (Polygram Films).
Usa Today 30
4.5
A thoughtful hybrid of sci fi, thriller, and character drama; to give you some idea of its high mindedness, it not only opens with a relevant Bible ve ..
Vice
4.5
a smart, beautifully crafted piece of not so science fiction that manages to successfully mix social commentary and suspense into a generally enthrall ..
IMDB
4.5
The film renders this process with fascinating precision, showing how nail cuttings, fingerprints, blood and urine samples, even hairs and dandruff, c ..
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