Great Movie!

Rating: 10/10 (12 June 2007)

This was one of the best films I have seen this year. Very interesting look at a society that has suddenly become infertile, depicting the government in a very violent and proud way and the terrorist groups mainly the "fishers" in a very violent way as well. Clive Owen plays a former activist who has lost his faith after his child with Julian Moore was killed by disease. Despite this he becomes an unlikely champion for humankind when he discovers the first pregnant woman in years. When I first saw this title and saw Clive Owen in it, I was skeptical that it might become another movie selling out its ideas to just making Clive Owen look "badass". However this did not happen, and I particularly liked the entire sequence at the end when Clive Owen is in the middle of a war zone with the new born baby and her mother and he does not once pick up a gun and start shooting. This movie does not sell out to cheap Hollywood ideals to sell more tickets. This movie becomes a movie about fate chance and having faith in human kind to make a change. It is very relevant as we move into a day and age when overpopulation, war, and terrorism are beginning to cause us to question our own faith in each other to live peacefully together.