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I saw "Gattaca" recently, on video. It wasn't bad--mostly an aesthetic experience. The movie's central conceit is that we're headed toward a future in which genetics is believed to be, and so is enforced as, destiny.
Nothing much was required of the actors, so the bland near-ineptitude of Ethan Hawke didn't matter a lot. The real star of the film, IMO, was a (largely incidental) spiral staircase in the apartment of one of the main characters, that was designed to look like the double helix of a pair of strands of DNA. At one point in the film, a paraplegic former athlete drags himself up the staircase as part of an effort to protect the main character's fraudulently acquired genetic identity.
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