Everyone was offered the enhancements, but the protagonist's parents refused them because they were reactionary luddites. Then when their son was born, not onl

Everyone was offered the enhancements, but the protagonist's parents refused them because they were reactionary luddites. Then when their son was born, not only was he un-enhanced, but he had a severe heart defect that would probably kill him by 30. The parents are the bad guys in this scenario, not the society that offered them the tools to fix their kid and were refused. It's like when modern parents refuse to vaccinate their children - if that kid gets Polio and is crippled for life, that doesn't mean we should abandon vaccinations because we're creating "an unvaccinated underclass". It just means that kid's parents were stupid and ruined their son's life. >Well, I guess Jude Law's character couldn't live with the idea of being completely engineered for winning, and still losing. Jude Law's character illustrates one of the flaws the movie has: It was made in the '90s, when our understanding of the power and scope of the influence of genetics was quite primitive. A genetically enhanced person would probably not only be a beautiful genius, but also highly resistant to depression, anxiety, mental illness and even low self-esteem.