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Code 46

Tim Robbins (Actor), Samantha Morton (Actor), Michael Winterbottom (Director) Rated:
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3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 604 ratings
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Genre Science Fiction & Fantasy
Format Widescreen
Contributor Michael Winterbottom, Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 33 minutes
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Code 46, directed by Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart) from a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Welcome to Sarajevo), is a sci-fi thriller in the tradition of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville with shades of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and classic film noirs. William Geld (Tim Robbins, The Shawshank Redemption), an insurance investigator assigned to track down and dismantle a passport forgery ring, falls for the ringleader Maria Gonzales (Samantha Morton, Sweet and Lowdown), leading to further complications when one of Maria's customers is found dead. Code 46 co-stars Jeanne Balibar (Clean), Om Puri (Gandhi) and Nina Fog (The11th Hour).

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.88 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Michael Winterbottom
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 33 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ February 16, 2016
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Olive
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B018TJ0LNY
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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Good other world style of Science Fiction. Sort had a "Blade Runner feel" with a "Galactica-style" story about Big Brother knows best and controls all. I liked how the all the cool and clever new technology was treated by filmmaker as just everyday props and sets. Calm pace throughout. Tim Robbins was awesome. Great sets and locations.
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  • Beth Harmon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, with tragic ending (SPOILERS here):
    Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2022
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    In the near future, in Shanghai (where the story takes place but probably the norm all around the globe as well) the wealthy and well-respected are allowed to thrive and enjoy their prosperity on 'the inside', in a George Orwell type world where society dictates who an individual can and cannot get romantically involved with. The major concern is preventing individuals getting involved with each other with even the remotest possibility of being genetically related, a big no-no in this not so rosy utopia society.

    The poor and the exiled are forced to suffer and fend for themselves in the desert, an after-thought and no concern whatsoever to the higher ups in "the inside".

    Maria (Samantha Morton) forges fake covers for those who wish to travel but are unable to get legal visas through the system (the 'sphinx'). This brings the attention of a well-to-do investigator William (Tim Robbins) brought in to Shanghai to investigate the case. He immediately realizes she is guilty but ends up falling in love with her even though he is married and has a son.

    Wanting to avoid any more emotional turmoil, William returns to his family but is forced to return to Shanghai to continue with the investigation. He learns Maria has been taken to a clinic, and she has had her memory of their sexual rendezvous wiped out. She has no memory of him whatsoever and has no memory of the abortion she was forced to have because, as he soon learns, because of a genetic structure that links them together, any romantic future for them is out of the question.

    Unable to accept this, and equally unable to walk away from her, he is torn between wanting to go back home and wanting to stay with her. He chooses the latter. Even though Maria has no memory of William, she still trusts him enough to entrust herself in his care. She ends up falling back in love with him, but this has tragic results. They are eventually tracked down and recaptured. He ends up having his memories of her erased, and is returned back to his family, while she is exiled to Shanghai's dreaded desert.

    One can't help but wish things had ended differently and more happily for them, especially Maria. The movie demonstrates how truly unfair and unjust this supposedly 'ideal' society operates....if it was truly just, then William should have been banished to the desert along with Maria (though no doubt the powers-that-be would have seen to it they were kept as far apart from each other as possible). I suppose the fact that he has a wife and child spared him from sharing Maria's fate. I

    Still I can't help but hope that, despite her aching over William, and her being banished to such a forsaken place with next-to-no hope for any kind of reprieve, Maria will eventually get over him (this time voluntarily) and find a way to make do and move on.

    This is such a great film, with great performances from Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton. This movie flew under the radar, but IMO it's one that's not to be missed, especially if you're into the "future society" type of stories. I can't recommend it enough.
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  • Reticuli
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Cinema
    Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2005
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    Winterbottom and Boyce are a hell of a team. Look at the movies they've made. I honestly can't think of any other source for films this ecclectic and uncompramised. Every one is completely different. I LOVE THIS MOVE. I love everything about it. If you gave me cameras, film, production money, the principle actors, and all the existing footage with the chance to change anything I wanted about it, I honestly can't think of anything I'd change about it. Gorgeous, gorgeous film making. It amazes me they had such a tiny budget and had to go guerrilla-style in many locations, yet still managed to get sufficient shots. And what shots! I so wish I'd seen it in the theater, but I don't ever remember even hearing about it. The photography and post DI tweaking are lovely. The colors have such subtlety and transparency you really need a DVD player or computer hardware that will not blow colors out or mess up the picture's dynamic range. Anywoo, that's probably a little techy for most of you. Such courageous, forward writing. Tons of heart. Lovely acting with a totally authentic sense of the characters. This director is very good with actors, and his relationship with his editor in which takes they've chosen is obviously as good as director/editor chemistry gets.

    The film is not blatently caught up in gadgets and futurism looks, which other directors have tried to also stay away from (Spielberg, Proyas) only to create alternate, obviously far future settings that shout PRODUCTION DESIGN! Not here. It's completely believable in look, with just enough PD to set the era but always keeping it grounded, human, liveable as people truely do. Just believable and right. With China as a multicultural, multilinguistic economic powerhouse, which all the data indicates they are becoming. The intriguing concept of privatized universal healthcare, pseudo-governmental corporate employer/conglomerates funding it, and their fusion with passport Visa's and lifestyle/genetic risk assessments. Pure genius. With many of the centrist economies of the world, it's certainly a possibility. And the gap between the 1st/2nd World and 3rd World isn't getting better, but worse...especially as economic integration and technology accelerate in the advanced nations, the rest are getting left behind. It's all just very well thought out for a premise. I found no difficulty in suspending disbelief because I understood the plausability of it all. And I haven't even gotten into the test tube babies and cloning issues brought up. Code 46 doesn't make statements, but simply assumes if it does continue to develop where would it go and how would it affect people...people who will still be living their lives regardless, on a day to day ordinary level that's so familiar to us. And still the characters have come first. The premises and everything that goes with them are secondary to the interactions, the words, the feelings...so much so that the setups and information presented to us earlier can't shout or give anything away to the point of disrupting or pushing us outside the film because we're so involved in the people. Winterbottom and Boyce succeeded in all they attempted, I think. Maybe this film isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it sure is mine. "Tea, Code 46, Hot" Sorry, couldn't resist.
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  • pgp
    4.0 out of 5 stars Complex, intriguing, intelligent 4* !
    Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2024
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    Many films claim that you will be mesmerized, question humanity/technology & where society is heading but fall short, this film Actually Does Deliver! Between the storyline, Haunting music score,acting, character interactions, dialogue & locations,you are drawn in from start to finish! Not a perfect movie (eg: when Maria & Will are at the club dancing, should have shown them holding one a other more closely & shown them exiting the club,seemed like bad edit/cut or missing footage in my opinion) Definitely a solid 4* movie.View any previews/trailers,rent on Prime Video,you might want to purchase this,I did!
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  • chakochan
    5.0 out of 5 stars ＳＦですが
    Reviewed in Japan on November 8, 2015
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    実際にどう考えてるかわからないですがこの作品をみるかぎり、虚無の顔をしてます。ゼロにちかい、ものが、美しいといってるように自分は思いました。自分がそう思ってるのかもしれません。１００％というものはないので、カフカ、ゴダール、アントニオーニの匂いはします。
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  • Laurence R. Hunt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Code 46 - Another Authentic Science Fiction Film
    Reviewed in Canada on October 1, 2007
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    This is an authentic science fiction film.

    Code 46, starring Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton, is another low-budget effort that for the most part could have been a stage play. The director is Michael Winterbottom.

    That's right. This one is about the acting, and Robbins and Morton excel. But the premise is pure science fiction. What if biotechnology had become very advanced, and humans were widely reproduced through in vitro fertilization and cloning in order to regulate the emergence of troublesome genes?

    This particular effort is low budget enough that there was no attempt to construct futuristic settings. Shanghai seemed a sufficiently futuristic city, so the crew operated in that city for two weeks (due to limited funds) - and the interiors were shot largely in London. The buildings, household items, and vehicles are exactly those you would have seen in 2003 when the movie was filmed.

    Particularly during the scenes inside the vehicles, with evident contemporary Toyota logos, I was once again reminded of Godard's use of "intergalactic space" in Alphaville.

    The film is set nominally in a future different than our own due primarily to the presence of advanced biotechnology (fingers can also be regrown), ozone-piercing ultraviolet radiation from the sun forcing a nocturnal lifestyle, further multi-ethnic blending in the world's leading urban centres, and the rigid segregation of the genetically pure from the genetically tainted.

    However, given that there was so little effort dedicated to creating a futuristic set, my own preference would be to consider this an alternative reality film. What if Alejandro Zaffaroni had been born 50 years earlier and nothing had been done about chlorofluorocarbons? Let's just think of this as a self-reproducing fractal universe parallel to our own, courtesy of superstring and inflation theory (now perhaps increasingly in question, due to oscillating universe theory, but that's another matter).

    Now, let's add a couple of additional elements. How about a virus that is neurologically active, enhancing empathy? Add to this a chance meeting with a woman who might be the clone of your mother - but she is young - near your age. Your genetic similarity is 50%, and perhaps you have never met your mother, due to being raised by host parents.

    How might you respond to this person with whom you are deeply biologically but not experientially linked? There is only enhanced empathy to guide you.

    How refreshing that this is not a film "about" technology. Nor is it a disguised thriller, action or horror movie.

    Code 46 is quite simply the story of how two human beings might respond to a new type of situation that could be made possible only through the implementation of technologies which are presently conceivable, but not yet in application.

    Robbins and Morton seem to understand this intuitively, and everything in the film is focused around their very human solution to this dilemma - a solution, of course, which the genetically regulated society cannot permit. I do not think this film could have been better acted. It is first rate.

    Watch and enjoy. It's the real thing!
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  • Robert Scholz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gentechnik als Basis der Diktatur der Versicherungen
    Reviewed in Germany on November 15, 2006
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    Da man ja immer öfter gute Filme im Kino verpaßt, habe ich mir diesen Film ausgeliehen. Ich wurde nicht enttäuscht, ich bin begeistert.

    Bei der Durchsicht der Rezensionen fiel mir allerdings auf, dass auch viele gute Beurteilungen aus meiner Sicht am Kern dieses Films vorbei gehen. Auf der Basis umfassender Anwendung der Gentechnik zeigt dieser Plot eine Diktatur der Versicherungen in allen Teilen des Lebens der Menschen auf. Nur wer eine Versicherung hat darf sich an bestimmte Orte begeben, eine Sicherheitsmacht verhindert Zuwiderhandlungen, setzt also die Risikoabgrenzungen der Versicherung durch. Ein Risiko ist der unbeabsichtigte Inzest, der wegen des Klonens von den Einzelnen nicht gesehen werden kann, weil das Wissen um die Verwandtschaft ihm oder ihr vorenthalten wird. Ebenso geht es um Risiken, die der Einzelne hinsichtlich seiner oder ihrer Gefährdung in bestimmten Regionen nicht kennt, aber die "Versicherung".

    Dieser Film ist aus meiner Sicht ein politischer Versuch über die Gefahren der Möglichkeiten der Gentechnik im Zusammenhang mit der zunehmenden Privatisierung der Risikovorsorge - ein Zusammenhang, der heute schon aktuell ist, wenn es darum geht eine Lebensversicherung zu bekommen und dafür umfassend über "Vorschädigungen" (auch mit Nutzung von Gentests) Auskunft zu geben. So habe ich ihn gesehen und zudem das ausgezeichnete Spiel der vorzüglichen Darsteller (insbesondere Samantha Norton) genossen ebenso wie die beeindruckenden Bilder.
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  • Fraser Simons
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Cyberpunk Romance Flick
    Reviewed in Canada on February 21, 2017
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    Holy moly did I ever love this movie. Right after watching it I gave it a 10 on IMDB and bought the soundtrack. Which, strangely has a pretty low ranking despite a whole whack of glowing reviews with similar feelings to my own. To say I was pleasantly surprised would be a massive understatement.

    In the future everything is controlled by the governments and corporations, pretty familiar so far, right? We are told right away over a series of shots that seem like it's no the future at all, but right now. That, people with genetic compatibility is prohibited. We aren't told the repercussions but we know this is a big no no. Anything above 25% if I remember correctly is not a thing that is tolerated in this society. And then, it's kind of never brought up again.

    William Geld (Tim Robbins) goes to Shanghai to try and solve a problem for a corporation. Some "papeles" have been flagged with people who have fake IDs. Basically, these papeles are issued by the totalitarian are what allow people to travel to other places, and keep people outside of the cities in shanties out of the cities.

    William meets a woman named Maria while investigating and a really unique and interesting love story happens. I don't want to give much away but what follows is super compelling. The soundtrack is fantastic, the acting, cinematography, and script is just fantastic.

    The world is interesting and compelling over time. At first, everything doesn't seem like it's the future at all, and then slowly we are introduced to future tech and cultural things that make it clear that we are not in in the present.

    My favorite thing was that it seems as though everyone in this world has a short hand that mixes a bunch of different languages. They apologize and refer to boys and girls in Spanish in Shanghai, a young boy speaks french to his father in Seattle, some Chinese words are mixed throughout.

    Another thing is the concept of consensual viruses that alter people's minds. Code 46 infects everyone and forces them to do something specific, the main character has an empathy virus he uses to immediately discern things about people so long as they offer up something personal about themselves. It's a super neat concept.
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  • shinao
    4.0 out of 5 stars 貴重なアーカイブ《CODE 46》
    Reviewed in Japan on April 21, 2020
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    コロナで配送は遅れたが、ティム・ロビンスとサマンサ・モートンの不朽の名作を完ぺきな状態で保管してくれていたショップには敬意を表する。配達遅延がなければ、本来は五つ星。
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