Pointless and pretentious

Rating: 3/10 (11 February 2007)

What other reviewers consider an advantage of this movie, I consider serious drawbacks. In my opinion, an anti-utopia is supposed to be thought provoking, to have an agenda and to be highly psychological. Unfortunately, this movie has none of these. The behavior of the characters (especially secondary ones) is often rather illogical, which makes it impossible to understand their motives and what is really going on, and why. A few scenes are very emotional, however, their ethical side remains obscure because, again, you cannot understand what people really think. It is definitely not the result of poor acting -- on the contrary, the acting is pretty good, it just does not help. Overall, Children of Men would have qualified for a typical entertaining and pointless action movie if it had not been so dark and pretentious.