The problem with Gattaca is this: - a miserable, cold-ly dispassionate setting is no excuse for making a miserable, coldly dispassionate film. The whole thing is so thoroughly blue-lit, so designed to gleaming cinematic perfection that it's hard to care about anyone or what they say or feel or do. In fact, the only fleshed-out, wonderfully cynical and roundedly human character (played by Jude Law) gets such a rough deal all the way through that you leave the cinema appalled that writer/director Andrew Niccol could have done something so incredibly nasty to one of his creations.
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