Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Children of Men


The movie is set in 2027, in a time where the youngest person in the world is 18 years of age. The medical community is at a loss as to what is causing the infertility in the world's population and mankind is heading for extinction. All of the world's societies have collapsed and England is the last safe haven, so it is drawing the world's refugees. By some miracle, a woman has become pregnant, but in the current climate of violence and political/nationalistic sects, the woman and baby's only hope for a safe haven is getting to a boat owned by the Human Project.
I thought this was a really good movie over all. The plot was good and kept me guessing who was the "good" guys and who were the "bad" guys. Over the course of the movie, each character showed their true colors which kept me intrigued.
This movie does not move into my top 5 favorites of all time for a couple of reasons. One was it was a violent movie and a very realistic violent movie at that. While I enjoyed the movie, due to the violence I do not think that I could watch it over and over again like I could with the others on my list. The other reason is that towards the end of the movie there is a scene where the main characters are running through a war zone and one of the extras is killed and blood splatter falls on the camera lens. This blood stays on the lens for the rest of the sequence. If this was shot in a documentary style, where a camera would be following the characters this would work, but it was not so it was merely distracting. Good movie and interesting and engaging story line, but needs some editing.