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Title: IT'S IN THE GENES
Review: Welcome to a not too distant future where genetically superior humans get all the good jobs, while those born naturally have to piddle their way through the mundane jobs. Enter Ethan Hawke, the "human" who wants to go to Titan, one of the moons of Jupiter, but to do so has to convince Gattaca, the corporation involved, that he is a genetically enhanced human. He "borrows" the vital fluids of a crippled VALID, played nicely by Jude Law, and manages to get to the top of the list of space travelers. The murder of an important director, however, may be his undoing, as his true identity becomes more and more revelant. Critically acclaimed as one of the more intelligent of sci-fi films of the nineties, GATTACA is competently done, with nice performances from Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin and Loren Dean, but ultimately its leisurely pace and lack of true surprises makes it merely an exercise in style with a potential message overshadowed by its manipulation. Not one of my favorites.
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