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Summary: bleh
Review: i didn't think this movie was all that. the first 40 minutes of it were good, but then it degraded to a cracked out version of les miserable with the hardcore investigator bent on catching the lower-cast. i also thought the moral of the story was a bit ironic in that the main character, although persecuted throughout the whole movie, wound up wanting to go into the stars, which was comprised of even more people who consisted of the same people that persecuted him. also, i thought the swimming race between two adults was a bit stupid...
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Summary: I LOVE THIS MOVIE
Review: This is a great movie. All the actors are wonderful, especially Jude Law. The movie is so perfectly done, even though its a little slow at the begging, it still kept me intrested till the very end. This is one of the few movies that can make me cry, and I love it. A great movie for anyone, I highly recomend it.
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Summary: Quietly Entertaining
Review: A great, understated, low-key film that is intelligent and philosophical. The filming is beautiful, austere without being cold, and nicely uncluttered. Ethan Hawke turns in a nice performance as a normal man battling his natural genes and the society that rejects him because of them. He has an easy chemistry with both his co-stars, Uma Thurman, who is perfectly believable and looks convincingly like a genetically engineered human, and Jude Law, turning in an effectively heart-breaking performance, and a spoilt, genetically perfect man, who nonetheless cannot live up to his potential.
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Summary: A Triumph of the Human Spirit
Review: "Gattaca" is an incredible example of a science-fiction movie entirely based on plot, low-key twists and development, and not on special effects. Married couple Hawke and Thurman, along with Jude Law, and the direction of Andrew Nicol prove that there is no gene for the human spirit.Vincent (Hawke) is an invalid, a "degenerate" born of natural conception without any advanced genetic engineering. Several seconds after he is born, his parents know how Vincent will die, and his life expectancy. As he grows, his heart dysfunction limits his career choices. As a result, his parents have another child, this time genetically engineered to be totally superior. The feuding siblings prove themselves over a game of swimming chicken, but it is inevitable as Anton grows more faster than Vincent that the younger child will be the favored. As a result, Vincent leaves the home and begins a job as a janitor at the Gattaca Aerospace Center, the closest he can be to his dream: the stars. But he finds that a janitor is the farthest away. Vincent trains his body and mind, but still cannot get past the cleaning job. Then, he makes a call. He wants to be a defective ladder, or, a stand-in for a enhanced person. Vincent stands in for one of the most prized people, Jerome Morrow (Law). His disguises are perfect. Jerome supplies the blood, urine, and hair to Vincent. Then, just as Vincent is getting along at Gattaca, there is a murder of the exact mission director that was in charge of the flight to Titan that included Vincent. Enter enhance Irene (Thurman) and investigators Hugo and Josef. Vincent adequately, with the help of Jerome, sneaks past the investigators at every turn while a relationship develops between himself and Irene. Drama, suspense, incredible acting follow. Hawke, in one of his first dramatic leads, shines as he plays an ordinary man who is extrodinary in using everyday techniques. He is the most human character in the entire movie, but holds the weight for all the the genetically enhanced. Uma Thurman, who's not given such a role as Hawke, does well with what she have. Director Niccol really accentuates on her beauty and innocence as he plays Irene, and enhance that really has no idea of the real life that Vincent is so accustomed to. There is excellent chemistry between the two. The two dated after the movie was over, and eventually were wed. There is a great supporting cast, including Alan Aarkin, Jude Law, and Ernest Borgnine. "Gattaca" is an under-rated movie that suprises all, and wonders how much spirit we can all have.
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Summary: excellent
Review: this movie is great. it was edge of your seat action
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Summary: One of the greatest Science Fact films ever made
Review: Ignoring outlandish, jingoinistic "let's save the world" sci-fi films of late (The Fifth Element, Armageddon et all), Gattaca is true sci fi, based on the premise of man tampering with genetics. Directed by Andrew Niccol, the film is riddled with thought-provoking statements such as "there's no gene for fate". Gattaca is one of the few science fiction stories that's set in the future, yet is bereft of the usual flying cars and time travel, with the film grounded in a distant reality, but still keeping certain elements of traditional sci fi in place. While Ethan Hawke is the principal actor, the most outstanding presence in this film is definitely Jude Law, taking the somewhat limiting screen time to elevate the film's thoughtfulness with pathos and dignity. Altogether, the film represents a new benchmark in proper sci fi, and with its vision based on reality; it's only a matter of time before the science fiction in Gattaca becomes science fact.
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Summary: Really good flick...
Review: A terrific modern, sci-fi adventure that's great to watch and makes you think when it's over. Gattaca, along with The Matrix and Dark City, belong to a new type of science fiction - presenting compelling, disturbing, alternate realities. In the case of Gattaca, however, part of what makes the movie so terrific (aside from Uma Thurman) is the tremendous attention to cinematographic detail that's evident, right down to the neo-futuristic Karmen Ghia-looking car. Definitely some lurking Kubrick influence here. But unlike Kubrick's film, this one doesn't have any of those slow parts or deliberate dialogue. The most suprising part about the movie, when you stop to think about it, is how little sic-fi is actually in it... but don't stop, go out and get this movie. it'll be a terrific addition to the collection.
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Summary: Genetically imperfect hero against DNA-based Apartheid
Review: Gattaca explores one of the neglected dangers of cloning. While eugenics would actually populate the world with largely benign and perfectly healthy and intelligent people, society would have to become more sophisticated to match those who populate its upper levels. Those who don't meet the standards of the society in "Gattaca" would fall through its cracks, creating a sort of techno-apartheid, bigotry right down to a science. Ethan Hawke is one of those unlucky 'godchildren' ' born into a sterile future from natural and not in-vitro fertilization. Talk about being born under a bad sign, a post-natal DNA check confirms that Hawke's character will have cardiac, neurological and vision problems and will be unlikely to live past his 30's. (Hawke's father, in an understated but heartbreaking moment, stops the doctors from letting the poor boy become his namesake). Fruitlessly dreaming of becoming an astronaut for the vaunted Gattaca, Vincent ('Hawke's character's eventual name) is confronted with a cruel reality of being 'invalid' ' one of the lower castes reserved for those of bad genes. (To maintain the genetic-ghetto, the police routinely test DNA make-up based on hair, fingernails, dandruff, blood and urine analyses of suspects.) The only spaceships Vincent has any hope of seeing the inside of are the ones he cleans as a janitor. Desperate, Vincent enters the identity black-market, an underworld where Valids on hard times sell their DNA perfect ID's to upwardly mobile invalids. To counter the police, these 'identity-smugglers' provide the tools that will allow Vincent to match up with Jerome Eugene Morrow, a valid crippled in an accident and reduced to wheelchair-bound and alcohol-fueled self-pity. Vincent has an ambitious plan ' using Jerome's identity, he will re-enter Gattaca (he had once mopped floors there) and become an astronaut. Despite his humble beginnings, Vincent has his fraud well-mapped: he excels as a navigator-trainee and is chosen for an eagerly awaited mission to the moons of Saturn. He takes his fraud very seriously ' careful to leave bits of Jerome's stubble and nail clippings at his work station. At first, everything works out ' not even the coldly analytical director of Gattaca (Gore Vidal) nor an even colder fellow-trainee (Uma Thurman) with whom Vincent falls in love suspect that he is really an invalid. With less than three weeks to the mission, disaster strikes ' one of Gattaca's directors is found dead, murdered and somebody is not only responsible, but has inadvertently left some physical debris behind. The only clue the police have are bits of skin fragments traced to Vincent ' but as far as anybody knows, Vincent hasn't worked in Gattaca in years, and nobody can immediately connect him and Jerome. However, a persistent detective with his own interest in the case throws a tight cordon around Gattaca, convinced that Vincent is hiding among the Valids, hoping to ferret Vincent out. Determined to go into space, Vincent uses every trick he can to stay ahead of the police. This was a great idea for a movie, which is why it loses something in the translation ' Hawke is excellent as the genetically imperfect 'invalid' who uses his desperation to surpasses expectations, but once he becomes Jerome, his story boils down to the tricks he uses to elude detection. The script does little with possibility that Vincent, though it's unfair, really has no place in the advanced society. Uma Thurman is too cold to match Hawke as his love interest. Instead, the script pairs up Jude Law as the 'Valid' who rents DNA to Hawke. At first it's a business proposition ' Vincent's wages can help the drunken Jerome maintain a semblance of his standard of living. Further down, Jerome finds a more symbiotic basis for their relationship. With the crippled Eugene officially holding a position with the vaunted Gattaca, he can face down anybody who would have dismissed him. Unfortunately, Jerome becomes more self absorbed, undermining what should be a climactic moment in which the wheelchair-bound Jerome must pose as his physically-whole self. What really kills this flick is its vision of a future as if conceived by the guys who do the artwork for Esquire ' with this new age looking like a sedate version of the swinging '60's, complete with electric-versions of period cars, steel and wood architecure, and a cooly non-techno version of just about everything. (Alan Arkin's character, a detective, looks as if he's walked off an episode of 'Naked City'; astronauts fly into space while wearing Armani suits) It's stylish, but the style overwhelms the substance. A botch, but not one you should resist.
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Summary: Not the holy grail...
Review: I love Science Fiction Movies. Most of the action movie junk out there barely qualifies so when i heard of Gattaca i thought here would be a great sci-fi movie that would challenge the mind as well as the eyes. As far as video quality goes - this is a great DVD - it looks wonderful, i didnt see the Superbit version but you won't be disappointed with the regular version on a large screen 16X9 Television Set. The sets are terrific and the cinematography breathtaking - HOWEVER - the visual style (i.e -thirties era suits, weird electric cars) were unoriginal and got tiresome - we've seem them before in movies like Brazil and Robocop, the story didnt advance by ripping off the style of these movies. Ultimately the problem with the film is that it doesnt go anywhere and lacks a believable script - none of the characters are deeply developed to the point that the viewer cares for them and the film doesnt progress from the first half hour after establishing the theme of a genetic elite. Ethan Hawke, Jude Law and Uma Thurman are good actors - and play their parts well - but there was nothing to ultimately challenge the viewer.
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Summary: Gattaca Review wrote at school
Review: The motion picture ?GATTACA? tells the story of a man who wants his dreams come to true.
In a world where he is not allowed to do so. He is an ?invalid?. His gnetic structure gives his dreams no chance. So he has to find an way how to outwit the system. The viewer accompanies the main character Vincent on his journey through the world where he does
The impossible to achieve his aim: He must become someone else, someone who is ?valid?.So he become a fake valid. He starts relationship with a disabled valid. With the blood and urine samples of the valid ?partner?, Vincent is able to join GATTCA, a large company.He wants to become a navigator of spaceships. The viewer learns that genes can be imprtant, but they are less important than fate and talent. The movie also tell the love story between Vincent and a valid girl. It shows that at least one person can change her mind. There is also a crime story. A the director of GATTACA was killed. Is Vincent the murderer, will Vincent be discovered? Has he kill for his dreams. Markus Hennen Carsten Gizewski, Abendgymnasium Gelsenkirchen.
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