No Story. Lots of Frustration.

Rating: 1/10 (12 May 2007)

Children of Men is action without a story.
The world is in a shambles. Britain is the lone surviving society. Immigrant refugees are despised and exterminated Nazi-like by British nationals. Human babies are no longer able to be born. An immigrant becomes pregnant. A British national decides to help her for money.
This kaleidoscope of action/events should peak our interest and keep us watching. We should care about what's happening on screen. Especially, when the pregnant immigrant and her baby are being pursued and shot at by virtually every other character in the movie.
But unless some of this action is sorted out and explained by plot or characterization rather than vague, background political posters, newspaper headlines and newscaster innuendo, we soon lose interestor become extremely frustrated.
But the film rolls on and on explaining nothing!
The one-star rating is evidence of my extreme frustration.