Truman Show writer Andrew Niccol here directs a rigorous, fascinating
gene-thriller. Ethan Hawke is the astronaut wannabe in the
genetically tagged and enhanced future, where untouched chromosones
are discriminated against. He hatches a plan to replace the crippled
Jude Law in society, achieving his astronaut dreams and meeting the
effervescent Uma Thurman. As with Truman this is an expertly realised
microcosm, a world of urine bags and sweat tubes. Hawke and Law are
gripping, while Thurman is little more than window dressing, but then
that may well be the point. A tad sterile but vastly superior to 90% of the
science fiction that is vomited out of Hollywood.
