It's the near future, in which society self-administers Prozium daily to thwart all emotions. The emotion cops, Grammaton Cleric, arrest sense offenders using the time-tested method of massive gun-kata battles. Agent John Preston's (Bale) position is compromised when he's attracted to Mary (Watson), a woman working with a resistance group. Poor attempt at sci-fi drama raises the question "Would the future suck less if we stopped making lousy movies about it in the present?"
This might be... CoolerKing at 2008-04-04 11:46:37
... the stupidest, half-thought-through movie I've ever seen.
And it has a legion of fans, who compare it favorably to The Matrix and praise the coolness of gun-kata, the movie's special form of martial arts using handguns.
Those people are idiots.
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