there be nothing bad than science fiction craft by folk who do not have a feel for it . grasp at a concept which wouldn not be so terrible by itself ( a future where cloning be common enough that it be necessary to make it a crime for you to breed with someone too close to you genetically ) the screenwriter proceed to allow his ill suit imagination to run wild . when tim robbins character be able to guess a security guard computer password simply by get her to tell him one thing about herself and i know i be in for trouble . this ability be later reveal to be due to robbins have take an empathy virus and virus be use to grant instant ( or nearly instant ) skill upgrade to their user . robbins love interest complain about her own experience with such a virus a mandarin chinese language virus and which allow her to speak chinese and but a she complain and she couldn not understand what she be say . okay and first off and empathy and no matter how intense and isn not esp . without incorporate some sort of true mind reading aspect ( like an empathy virus which actively release virion into the vicinity and infect nearby people and pick up bit of their memory and then departs for the original host which be and a you can probably tell and a smidgeon on the impractical side ) you can not justify be able to determine a specific detail like someone password just by listen to the thing you do not say . nor can you acquire the ability to speak a language without understand what youre say the virus can not infect your vocal cord and translate for you on the fly and because a virus can not think . to give you the power to speak chinese and such a learning virus would have to modify your brain . it would have to encode the knowledge among neuron and and once it in there and it yours you certainly understand what youre say and because you have to . to use your own brain to perform a task and you must understand that task ( for the most part ) . unless and of course and they movie be suggest that the virus be deliberately design to put in place some bizarre multiple personality mental schism where some sub persona of yours function a a build in and one way translator . the mélange of language speak by the character be decent enough and although nowhere near remarkable enough to warrant all the love other reviewer have give . what more and all the multicultural insertion in the world can not make up for a simple and frustrating fact represent the dialog stink . it slow and it plod and and it unnatural . again and i be sure adherent have convince themselves that the dull strangeness be simply the result of an inspired genius create a truly futuristic ( and therefore subject to linguistic drift ) form of speech . i disagree . good dialog be good dialog in any era and the same go for tripe . lastly and i will revisit the central concept of the movie the banning of sex with yourself . widespread cloning be a nice and classic sci fi topic . so be global warm lead to ecological devastation ( which code 46 also incorporate ) . unfortunately and the two do not go together . if you have an ecological disaster cut down severely on the available living area and you do not run around clone people . you have population problem enough a it be you do not add to them by crank out re issue . regular and old fashion sex and birth provide all the population you need and and cloning of any sort would be ruthlessly suppress . to be fair and the movie wasn not all bad . it have some nice cinematography . perhaps if i have watch it mute and i could have enjoy it .