City of Ember (2008)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 90m
Director: Gil Kenan
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Murray, Toby Jones, Martin Landau
Synopsis:
Humankind moves deep under ground until at some point in the future it is safe to return to the Earth's surface. Meanwhile, the box that contains the key to their means of return and has been passed from mayor to mayor disappears. Two youths, a girl messenger and a boy generator worker, piece together the truth about their world as it rapidly disintegrates.
Review:
Groaning, like its eponymous city, under the weight of whether we need another dystopian fantasy movie based on a dystopian fantasy book, this routine adventure makes no advance on Brazil or Dark City and may have wanted to appeal to the youth market with its freshly promoted young actress. However, the leads are given precious little to go on in building sympathetic, fleshed out portrayals, and the production design takes over what waning interest there might be.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 90m
Director: Gil Kenan
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Murray, Toby Jones, Martin Landau
Synopsis:
Humankind moves deep under ground until at some point in the future it is safe to return to the Earth's surface. Meanwhile, the box that contains the key to their means of return and has been passed from mayor to mayor disappears. Two youths, a girl messenger and a boy generator worker, piece together the truth about their world as it rapidly disintegrates.
Review:
Groaning, like its eponymous city, under the weight of whether we need another dystopian fantasy movie based on a dystopian fantasy book, this routine adventure makes no advance on Brazil or Dark City and may have wanted to appeal to the youth market with its freshly promoted young actress. However, the leads are given precious little to go on in building sympathetic, fleshed out portrayals, and the production design takes over what waning interest there might be.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 90m
Director: Gil Kenan
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Murray, Toby Jones, Martin Landau
Synopsis:
Humankind moves deep under ground until at some point in the future it is safe to return to the Earth's surface. Meanwhile, the box that contains the key to their means of return and has been passed from mayor to mayor disappears. Two youths, a girl messenger and a boy generator worker, piece together the truth about their world as it rapidly disintegrates.
Review:
Groaning, like its eponymous city, under the weight of whether we need another dystopian fantasy movie based on a dystopian fantasy book, this routine adventure makes no advance on Brazil or Dark City and may have wanted to appeal to the youth market with its freshly promoted young actress. However, the leads are given precious little to go on in building sympathetic, fleshed out portrayals, and the production design takes over what waning interest there might be.