Underrated film, beautiful music score and coldplay's warning signs at the end wraps the movie in a special blanket for you to take with you.

A really underrated film in my view. Great cast, epic soundtrack. Sure, it’s a noir, dystopian film, but a good one. Worth a watch

This is such an unengaging movie. The couple (Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton) not only have no screen chemistry between them, we also can't connect with them as individuals. Neither is particularly likeable or even interesting. The Orwellian scenario of the not-too-distant future is somewhat interesting, but the lame romantic aspect of the story is just outright boring. There's a typical scene at the end with insipid pop music playing, some no talent singer whining about lost love, like some big tragedy happened. Problem is, I didn't give a damn.

Although an interesting premise, the movie is way too slow. Endless sequences of walking, driving, riding the subway, eating, small talk, yechh. Could have been a 30 minute movie. Some reviewers praise the cinematography, but there are random sepia tones overlayed throughout for no reason. Just distracting. Tim Robbins' acting is compelling as always but the female lead is flat. The ending, as in so many modern movies, made no sense. Probably because the actions of the characters throughout the movie, particularly the overlords, made no sense. Waste of time.

Perhaps the clearest characteristic of an authoritarian dystopia is how all character has been drained from the flat human subjects, transferred instead to the inventive technocratic regimes.

If you dream of hearing Tim Robbins mumble the word papelle over and over until you wish for death, this is the one for you!

Love tim Robbins but this movie was no bueno...

Less a movie than a sort of contrived tone poem with some artful atmospherics that will leave you wondering... why?

A base of Brief Encounter, a dose of Lost in Translation, and a dash of Eternal Sunshine, Michael Winterbottom and Samantha Morton and The Free Association as a threesome craft an audiovisual, sensory experience of love and loss through the eye wateringly beautiful lens of speculative science fiction. Winterbottom crafts a unique Wong Kai Wai inspired fantasy realism, a dreamscape on which to understand what it's like to fall in love and live under oppression. Winterbottom and company plays with audio, in some scenes wiping their dialogue under music and sound until it becomes a moving painting and you're taught to listen a different way, language and syntax in the lyrical script used to subvert and intentionally obfuscate. Yes, it's first half is much stronger than the latter half, and the actual mechanics behind the Code 46 and the cloning makes little sense to me, and I understand this film is not for everyone. But achingly, every frame of this movie feels as if it's made for me. I think, like it's spiritual companion piece Solaris, time will look favourably on its experimental style and bold tones.

Whoever created this future has a very powerful vision of the future. A merging of four different cultures; Western, Chinese, Indian and Arabian is a very unifying vision of the future. Story is superb and so is acting.

Criminally underrated low-budget, low-key tale. excellent world-creation and a standout turn from morton.

Duller then a doorknob.

Mildly interesting futuristic drama is not one of Winterbottom's best.

Minimalist romantic tragedy that plays on it's premise not its setting. Heartbreaking, well shot, acting portrays a desolate dystopian no too distant future

After the critical success of 24 Hour Party People (2002), director Michael Winterbottom and writer Frank Cottrell Boyce reunited for this low-budget sci-fi film, which was partially inspired by Brief Encounter (1945). It's a thought provoking film about genetics which combines a futuristic setting shot in various locations around the world and it has an other worldly language spoken throughout too. Set in a futuristic setting where society has to reproduce by forced choice and are designated to specified zones and cities, it has insurance fraud investigator William Geld (Tim Robbins) travelling from Seattle to Shanghai to look into the allegations of people moving between cities. His investigations lead him to Maria Gonzalez (Samantha Morton), who has been forging paperwork for people to move around, William got the truth out of Maria using an "empathy virus". But William becomes captivated by Maria, and instead has someone else prosecuted, while he embarks on an affair with Maria, while he has a family back in America. It's a well made film, even though it was done on a shoestring, and Winterbottom made the most of locations in Shanghai, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and London. It's not a film for everyone, and the language which mixes foreign languages with English has a unique touch. But it's a cold film with little emotions going on.

Contrary to expectations, I did not find Code 46 to be a dark thriller. Rather, I found it to be rather light when compared with THX1138 or 1984. Overall, the film has a strange vibe to it that is romantic, pensive, mysterious, fatalistic. Unsure what to think of it, though it is certainly a cut above the B-movie I had been expecting. All around Code 46 has solid acting and directing with some interesting concepts.

Michael Winterbottom is really quite incredibly prolific by modern standards, turning out at least a movie a year for the last 15 years. As one would kind of expect, the results are fairly hit or miss. A lot of his films seem to be very good ideas that aren't fully realized using the time and money available. This film is a good example of that. He creates a really compelling future world using mostly modern settings and technology, but making it look just alien enough to be convincingly futuristic. (The film is quite reminiscent of "Alphaville" in that respect.) He uses this wonderful setting to tell a completely conventional love story involving pretty sketchy characters. The characters and plot feel like unwelcome intrusions into the setting.

Futuristic take on the star-crossed romance, well-acted, scripted and directed.

Interesting scifi futuristic background story but the interpersonal and main story was off. Regretted having wasted my time watching it.

A very satisfying piece of dystopian storytelling and an interesting vision of the future where language and territories are truly global. People of the world are ruled by genetics and those who are left behind are outcasts from society and the city. We are not far away from this vision. Considering this film was made in 2003 its premise is becoming more and more accurate each day. The production values aren't much and the cinematography could have been better but still a very watchable film.