Review by johnpmoseley

What if human physiology changed - evolved if you will - so people could eat plastic? There's an obvious benefit, as one character points out: it would rid the world of a great deal of polluting waste. This is the story of one such evolving human coming to this realisation, against the idea that it's something he must resist even if doing so causes him huge suffering.

But why does it need to be such a slog? Why should the police be trying to prevent the change? You can see it all might be a little disturbing, but it's just not that big a deal.

That's one reason, I think, why this movie's kind of a bore. The other is that the dialogue is over-written in two ways, both too fancy and literary, and too convoluted in explaining what's going on.

And then, despite all the detailed exposition, the movie dashes past a key piece of illogic: a child Lamarckianly evolving as a result of surgical interventions in the previous generation. Mortensen's character points out the fallacy and his respondent deals with it by raising his voice, not making an argument. That's not even the only thing not quite worked out here, but it's the most glaring.