I love this movie so much

Undescribable Perfection

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It's mostly the two main characters making out interspersed with other stuff that may or may not matter or make sense. The good reviews here are REALLY a stretch. Ends with the words "I miss you" .....but who cares.

It's amazing that none of the cast or crew noticed that they were using a primitive first draft instead of a polished story. Somehow they made a whole movie without noticing how weak the story was. There were a few good ideas but the whole thing needed to be reworked several times over until it became half-way presentable.The background society doesn't feel plausible enough. Astonishing things happen in this dystopian world and there isn't much rhyme or reason to it.How does the empathy virus work? It seems to give him telepathic powers. How can there be an counter-empathy-virus-virus? It feels more like magic than science fiction. In science fiction there needs to be some attempt at explaining the purpose or function of the new technology.If there are really so many clones in the world that there are entire government departments designed to prevent incest, then how come nobody in the movie looks the same? Did I miss something? Also why would they knowingly populate the world with clones and not realize that incest was going to be a problem? Why does he seem to allow Maria to make the somnambulistic phone call? Why does he casually rush into an affair with this woman? If it is supposed to be intense attraction why are the actors so nonplussed about it all? Also the relationship is creepy. The story would work with star-crossed lovers of similar age and prospects. But the William character is older, more powerful and already married. It feels like he is taking advantage of her. It's not clear why she would fall for him.I could go on and on but there are really too many inexplicable things in this story to point out. Basically my critique is WHY? do things happen the way they do in this world - there doesn't seem to be any reason for the government to pursue these bizarre policies.

Few films advertising as science fiction are such. Most are at best fantasy and very often mere comic books for the screen. Code 46 is indeed the genuine item. Rather than speaking and acting like robots or limiting human interaction to computer-speak, the characters and bit-players in C-46 speak and act like real people; e.g., ordinary habits, creature comforts, moods, etc. But above all, C-46 is a compelling love story, borne of -allow me some license- extraordinary ordinariness. Robbins and Morton are just perfect are everyday plodders succumbing to their human callings. Their physical attraction is palpable and their union joyful. But for being too heavy on conjured sci-fi ideas as plot devices; e.g., memory erasing, I'd assign C-46 a 9 or 10. But by all means enjoy this film!

Code 46 is a disquieting science fiction love story with themes that explore the moral impacts of advances in biotechnology. In the not-so- distant future, a married man investigates a counterfeiter and ends up the perpetrator of an ethical crime.The film stars Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton together with Togo Igawa,Natalie Mendoza,Nabil Elouahabi,Om Puri and Jeanne Balibar. The movie is directed by Michael Winterbottom, with screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. The soundtrack was composed by David Holmes under the name "Free Association".Set against the backdrop of a technologically advanced Shanghai, where people are only allowed to travel between countries with official passports called "papelles," the film charts the efforts of Seattle native William to get to the bottom of a contraband-papelle operation within the walls of a high-tech company that manufactures them. There he finds Maria, an enigmatic young woman who may or may not be selling the passports on the black market. William has a brief affair with Maria, which, despite his attempts to return home, causes him to become embroiled in an even bigger controversy in Shanghai.The film is a big disappointment despite having a talented cast in Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton. The viewer tend to get bored and probably less sympathetic and interested with the characters involved as they perform more like physically assembled beings from the laboratory rather than people with emotions. Aside from that,the premise is somewhat original in the sense it gives a person an aloof feeling especially with the characters involved namely William and Maria,we get to a point that we feel lack of empathy for both of them.I don't know if this was the purpose of the screenwriter but nevertheless,he should have made it a point to make the movie interesting and absorbing especially for the events that are about to happen and for the character involved in the story.Without this,the movie becomes a missed opportunity despite the fact that it could have been an intelligent science fiction that would have given a view of what the future of biotechnology in the years to come.