Beautiful cinematography and a moody score evoke some of the better science fiction movies of the past two decades (Gattaca and Until the End of the World come to mind), but this convoluted and morally ambiguous picture doesn't deliver characters, story or even a compelling conflict. Whil strong on premise, Code 46 languishes in rich visuals from beginning to end, never letting the viewer in to the characters' thoughts and feelings. Set in a future where global communication has fused all world languages together, the borders of all countries appear decidedly closed off unless one can travel with a special visa. Samantha Morton plays a factory worker who manufactures said visas and then illegally sells off forged ones to people so they can travel wherever they wish despite potential medical dangers. Tim Robbins is an empathic investigator sent to Morton's work to weed out who is creating the forged visas. The pair spend a night together, Robbins having lied to keep Morton away from persecution, and the result of their passion is a "Code 46," an illegal coupling of two people with DNA that's been deemed too alike to conceive a child. Trying to understand both Morton and Robbins's characters is infuriating. They stumble through the story without motivations, staring at one another like they see the face of God in each other's eyes. Now in HD!

Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a theater director in New York and as the film progresses he tries to build a New York setting on a stage. As his health deteriorates as he ages the man still can get the women and some nice naked women at that! Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton, and Jennifer Jason Leigh are just a few that we get to see in various stages of dress! In HD from Bluray!

Other than her role in Minority Report, Samantha Morton tends to play some pretty weird chicks. (Come to think of it, she was pretty weird in Report also.) In this movie she plays one of two sisters whose lives are drastically affected by the death of their mother. Fortunately for nudophiles, it involves Samantha going off the deep end big time, giving us some excellent views of her in all her glory. A most excellent movie indeed.

In a blistering breakthrough performance, Sam Riley stars as Ian Curtis, the troubled Joy Division singer whose personal, professional and romantic battles ended in suicide at age 23. Rock photographer Anton Corbijn's directorial debut chronicles Curtis's life in stylish black-and-white, faithfully re-creating the mood of the British post-punk scene circa 1980. Samantha Morton co-stars as Curtis's wife, Debbie.

Beautiful cinematography and a moody score evoke some of the better science fiction movies of the past two decades (Gattaca and Until the End of the World come to mind), but this convoluted and morally ambiguous picture doesn't deliver characters, story or even a compelling conflict. Whil strong on premise, Code 46 languishes in rich visuals from beginning to end, never letting the viewer in to the characters' thoughts and feelings.

Set in a future where global communication has fused all world languages together, the borders of all countries appear decidedly closed off unless one can travel with a special visa. Samantha Morton plays a factory worker who manufactures said visas and then illegally sells off forged ones to people so they can travel wherever they wish despite potential medical dangers. Tim Robbins is an empathic investigator sent to Morton's work to weed out who is creating the forged visas. The pair spend a night together, Robbins having lied to keep Morton away from persecution, and the result of their passion is a "Code 46," an illegal coupling of two people with DNA that's been deemed too alike to conceive a child.

Trying to understand both Morton and Robbins's characters is infuriating. They stumble through the story without motivations, staring at one another like they see the face of God in each other's eyes. It's all terribly boring and uninvolving, and recommended only to those who really, really cannot find anything else to watch.

• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: December 28, 2004
• Run Time: 93 minutes

A poor Scottish grocery clerk covers up her boyfriend's suicide by cutting up his body, then takes his finished but unpublished novel for her own and is able to get it published.

A very strange but fairly interesting character study, although definitely slow-paced. I recommend it.