Code 46 Critic Reviews

Code 46 has a noirish fatalism that renders it a close cousin to ''Blade Runner,'' but Winterbottom's film, shot mostly in the light, uses the theme of memory erasure to peer into the eternal sunshine of tragically altered minds.Read the full review

Updates a classic premise -- the struggle for personal freedom -- by pairing it with ethical and moral quandaries. Read the full review

At times somber, and now and then dangerously close to self-important, Code 46 is nonetheless a smart, mature film that examines who and what we can be to each other, in a world full of invention and change. Read the full review

You may soon forget the specifics of the plot, but you'll always remember the world it came from. Read the full review

The problem with Code 46 is that the movie, filled with ideas and imagination, is murky in its rules and intentions. I cannot say I understand the hows and whys of this future world, nor do I much care, since it's mostly a clever backdrop to a love affair that would easily teleport to many other genres.Read the full review

For at least half the movie, you need a code book a few inches thick to decipher Code 46.Read the full review

An intriguing but only partly successful co-mingling of film noir and sci-fi. Read the full review

Code 46 lacks the visceral power of "28 Days Later," as well as what might be termed its "gross-out" appeal.Read the full review

What this dystopia doesn't do is shock. In truth, Code 46 traffics in notions of speculative social fiction that are so familiar by now as to feel disconcertingly normal. Read the full review