Review: Never Let Me Go

The missus was truly suckered into this one. She took one look at the romantic cover and announced we must watch it. Another score from the 25p bin in my local charity shop I figured, while carefully ignoring her requests to read the back cover to her.

It's not a conventional romance.

If you are able to follow the same advice, it'll be a much more intriguing watch for this is an alt-Britain with a single devastating idea at its core. A horrifying Faustian pact means disease has been near eliminated.

Mulligan, Garfield and Knightly are all a bit too old to truly convince as teens they portray in the middle section of the movie, but they did capture the naive goofiness well. In lesser hands, the film wouldn't half as effective as all three reveal the changing life circumstances of each in an occasionally breathtakingly sad manner.

Verdict: If Britain made the Island or Bladerunner it would probably look something like this.