Movie Review: Children of Men

Children of Men

In the future women stop making babies and Britain becomes a closed society that despises all people from other nations. Julianne Moore heads a terrorist organization who needs to move a girl around a heavily regulated and violent country. She enlists her former lover to get her documents and it all goes weird from there.

The youngest person in the world, who's 18 dies at the start of the film. This scary future made me think a lot about our place on the planet. It isn't ever really explained why no babies are being born or why there aren't alternatives. Science and technology survive, but people turn animalistic and closed down. It really doesn't explain that either.

They mention a pandemic, but it's all kind of vague. I would think that if there were no new people coming along a country would be happy to have newcomers. People are blowing things up, it seems without purpose. The bonus features were all about politics and philosophy of the possible real futures, but they did little to explain the holes.

All that confusion aside, the story moves along nice, the acting is top notch and it's well worth your time. Lots of violence with stuff blowing up and shooting. Look in Dora, Lakeside, Coos Bay, Myrtle Point or Bandon for this DVD.

IMDB http://imdb.com/title/tt0206634/
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