Code 46

United Artists | Release Date: August 6, 2004

5.9	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Ratings

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IvanJ.Jun 3, 2006

Honestly, one of the worst films I've seen in the last five years. Utterly fails to redeem its promise. It's beautifully shot - I mean, gorgeously - but the problems are legion and sink it before it's half over. The central Honestly, one of the worst films I've seen in the last five years. Utterly fails to redeem its promise. It's beautifully shot - I mean, gorgeously - but the problems are legion and sink it before it's half over. The central issue is (as others here have noted) that the couple at the film's heart makes absolutely no sense. There's zero chemistry between Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton, so there's also zero logic to their ostensibly rapid descent into obsession. Morton is just awful, here, and the sex scenes in particular were hard to take. (Tim Robbins is likeable, but the character is underwritten, giving him little to work with but a single bit of shtick that is old the second time you see it.) The worst thing is that Code 46 insists, every thirty seconds or so, on reminding you of all the vastly superior films it's derived from and to the position of which it so clearly wishes to aspire - Alphaville, Gattaca, and (Tarkovsky's) Solaris in particular. Awful, simply awful.… Expand

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