Sadly predictable and underwhelming

Rating: 4/10 (1 April 2007)

Children of Men has such positive press and often positive reviews that I actually bought the DVD without renting it. So it was with great anticipation that I settled in to enjoy this critically acclaimed movie. Sadly at the end of it I lamented losing 90+ minutes of my life I will never get back along with the 20 bucks of which I will only be able to re-coup a couple dollars of when I sell this DVD. So P.D. James's story on the surface of a world in which there are no children being born is interesting. Clive Owen and Julianne Moore are fine actors, but this movie cannot figure out if it is a Mad Max type story or not. There are interesting references from the future back to the near future which is fun to work through. While they have been done before they are entertaining. Nonetheless this is a movie that has almost no suspense. You can definitely predict the ending from the moment a late term pregnant women is discovered. I never thought for one second that the child would not survive. It was a coin toss on the the mother or Owen's character to make it. A few decent chase scenes but the overall movie left a lot to be desired. There was so much more there for the taking that was not addressed. I was disappointed.