Sci-fi that's not a big budget, watered down, summer blockbuster (and that also isn't SyFy garbage) is often hard to find. Code 8 fills the niche of "decent sci-fi, decently done" pretty well. It covers some well-worn territory (mutant registration, police state dystopia, heisting, and gang politics), but it does it all well enough and with enough commitment from everyone involved to keep you vested. There's some genre tropes it rides, sure, but it's not so eye-rolling obvious you won't mind. I was generally surprised by Code 8, in a good way, and most sci-fi genre fans should also quite enjoy it.
Shout by Rick GebhardtVIP 6BlockedParent2020-01-25T14:33:21Z
Sci-fi that's not a big budget, watered down, summer blockbuster (and that also isn't SyFy garbage) is often hard to find. Code 8 fills the niche of "decent sci-fi, decently done" pretty well. It covers some well-worn territory (mutant registration, police state dystopia, heisting, and gang politics), but it does it all well enough and with enough commitment from everyone involved to keep you vested. There's some genre tropes it rides, sure, but it's not so eye-rolling obvious you won't mind. I was generally surprised by Code 8, in a good way, and most sci-fi genre fans should also quite enjoy it.