** - I should have known from the title of this one that I was being misled. In one of the more blatant instances of false advertising I’ve encountered, Mark Romanek directs what is claimed to be a “sci-fi drama” and turns out to be little more than a romance flick with a very minor sci-fi foundation in this 2010 British film. I don’t know if the filmmakers, the distribution company, or NetFlix are responsible for this action, but it is clearly promoted as – and I quote - a “sci-fi drama” which is just not the case. The only even remotely sci-fi thing about this film was its underlying premise that there are people in an alternate version of England between 1978 and 1994 that are raised strictly as organ donors. This may seem like an original scheme to people who watch nothing but girly romance crap, but the idea has been done to death in sci-fi novels and films since the 1950s. What this movie is really about is the clumsy love triangle that develops between Keira Knightley, some other girl, and the guy who is apparently going to be Spider-Man in the upcoming reboot of that series (which doesn’t bode particularly well for that failing superhero) over a span of 16 years while they wait to give their organs away. Despite its dopey plot and laborious pace it is actually pretty nicely directed and the cinematography is rather beautiful. That doesn’t make it a movie worth going out of one’s way to see, though.
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