Superlatives In Every Single Frame: A Master Is At Work Here!

Rating: 10/10 (7 April 2007)

I am astounded at the sheer stupidity of some of the whiners here that go on about continuity, story continuity, plot holes, plausibility of the actions of the characters and the events which transpire.
CHILDREN OF MEN is one of the most important and astounding masterpieces of the cinema to come in a long time.
If you want to see a plethora of GOOFS, go to your most popular movie on this IMDb.COM: The Godfather. There are so many mistakes, it's surprising that it could have ever have been considered a "good" movie at all. Go see for yourself.
For me, "The Children of Men" is a masterpiece because it achieves a vision of future that we cannot imagine but possibly happen with such virtuosity of narrative, acting, production values such as art direction, cinematography, sound and music that we are drawn in and we cannot look away because the events that we witness compel us to continue on, curious, involved, and searching for the next scene to evolve, the next conflict to resolve and because there isn't a moment filmed in this movie that we have ever seen before in exactly this utterly polished manner.
Frankly, if you didn't like this movie, then you do not have a complete vision of just how plausible all of this is. Ugliness, dirt, death, bloodshed, wars, suffering, aggression and terrorism not only from terrorist groups but also from governments are a part of the fate of this world that very few are ready to accept. But there is little that points in the other direction. There is little that points in the direction of peace, understanding and cooperation between all of the peoples of this world.
More than any other movie since A CLOCKWORK ORANGE has been as successful at depicting what a dark, ugly world we will hand down to our children (with some reservation given to BLADE RUNNER & BRAZIL - yet even this was an exercise in "suspension of belief", as Hitchcock was so famous for.) Children of Men has shaken me so since I saw it recently that its apocalyptic vision has altered my views regarding our current world and its many possible outcomes.
I know hundreds will disagree with me - but I dare say if you weren't shaken by this film, you may just require a finer examination of the world in your future curriculum.
Enrique Sanchez