Too formulaic for my liking

Rating: 4/10 (20 January 2007)

It was okay. Children of Men has drama, it has high-budget special effects, and it is emotionally turbulent. You become invested in the characters and you root for their success. Yet, beyond all of that lies a formulaic movie: the chronicling of a sort of dystopia that is gracious enough to leave the viewer with a glimmer of hope at the end. We've seen it all before.
Children of Men tells the story of a world in which all women have become infertile due to some unnamed factor. Then, we learn that a woman is pregnant with the only baby left on the planet. The majority of the movie is a suspenseful, tumultuous mission to save her in order to ensure the rebirth of society. While I was engrossed for most of the movie, it stayed the cookie-cutter course so stubbornly that toward the end I could not take it seriously anymore.