This is a film I had been wanting to see for a while, but just got around to recording when it was on TV recently and watched last night. It's a real style exercise. Although set in the near future, the people look like they belong in the 1930s with hints of later decades. The cars are supposed to electric, but look like old models including P6 Rovers for the police. The architecture is minimalist and smoking is back in fashion.

In this future babies are designed to have flawless genes and anyone who does not meet those standard cannot get a decent job. Vincent (Ethan Hawke) is a flawed natural birth (an Invalid) who wants to go into space, but can only get work as a cleaner. He pays Jerome (Jude Law), a paraplegic Valid, to supply him with the genetic material he needs to bluff his way into a job at the Gattaca aerospace company. There are complications when a flight director is murdered and traces of Vincent are found on the scene. Uma Thurman plays the love interest Irene. She looks perfect enough, but didn't do much for me emotionally. Actually the film didn't move me that way generally apart from at the very end, but was interesting as a style piece and as a warning of what could happen. The whole film is tinted a bit green (like The Matrix) for some reason. The Michael Nyman score is good if you like minimal music.

Overall I'm glad I saw it, but don't feel the need to watch it again too soon, even though I feel I may have missed something in the plot.

Details as usual at IMDB.