2067 is a science fiction movie set in a dystopian future where all plant life has been wiped out and the surviving human population is slowly dying from the limited synthetic oxygen supply. Orphaned city power plant worker Ethan(Kodi Smit-McPhee) fixes the ailing nuclear reactor with his best friend Jude(Ryan Kwanten) when they called in to meet with the top brass at the synthetic oxygen company Ethan's father use to work at as a head scientist. They discover he invented a time machine to communicate with the future and they received a message to "Send Ethan Whyte" thinking this could be the key to a cure and human survival Ethan is sent forward four hundred years. But things are not what they seem!
Smit-McPhee is a little out of his depth as the heroic lead and this is exacerbated by the stilted dialogue and some rough plot mechanics. Kwanten is a bit more confident and comfortable and the two have decent chemistry but the ambitious ideas aren't quite bolstered up by the mostly flat characters and overwrought emotions.
Slick and creative production design and an effective score help to elevate 2067 beyond the garish and there are some genuinely intriguing scifi concepts but script itself is under-baked and can succeed only to a point.
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