
The world is known to many feature films and even entire franchise that grew out of the short sketches: "the evil dead", "Saw", "Homeless with a shotgun", "District 9". Not exception canadian fantastic picture "Code 8", which begins with a short film of 2016, made by the creators of the Call of Duty Jeff Chan and Chris Pair. Starring truly canadian actor and star of the infamous Sidamo brothers Amell.
The story takes place in alternative America in which the lives of a small percentage of people with supernormal abilities, whose work was to demand a developing industry to until special people do not was replaced by machines on the production. In addition to all in society is intensifying negative attitude on — against "bearers of the gift." The main character — one of gifted minority children, deprived of legal income and eking a precarious existence, forced to step on the criminal track.
Second place — not a revelation for the Canadians, already used to your secondary industry, endless cable soap and the fighters of category B. It and in the film "Code 8" cleverlance was again the second after the star-spangled neighbors, etc all that shows picture of setting up games was repeatedly played out in The "X-men" and their various secondary clones. Simply put, at this field is extremely difficult to show the wonders of ingenuity in concept. But, there is always the possibility to shift from using the original script, capable of under one or different angle again to deconstruct the genre superheroine. And here, alas, "Code 8" not able to demonstrate the originality: an ordinary crime drama, not lose absolutely nothing if you take away from her terms in the form of super-powers and drones, then there will be the usual picture of the modern American (and not only) society with class inequality and a repressive police apparatus. If you continue to list all that not surprising this painting, it possible to mention the acting of amell brothers, mentally returning the viewer to their familiar serial images. The only thing that truly deserves the attention — the quality of the special effects and graphics for a negligible budget. In the rest — no surprises expected not have, despite the existing potential have more than a dozen times stories.
Pros: special effects, the graphics.
Cons: the Absolute triviality and secondary at all.