The greatest movie I have seen in a long time

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2006)

Not quite science-fiction as much as a hypothetical view of what the world might turn into under extreme circumstances, Alfonso Cuarón's grim, stark vision of the future is one of the most amazing and original films of its kind.
The origins of "Children of Men" lie in P.D. James' novel of the same name, but it's clearly Alfonso Cuarón's vision of the future, a hyper-exaggerated view of today's world, transposed onto a grim world where humanity's last generation is on the verge of extinction due to their inability to procreate. . It's not the shiny future with flying cars we've seen so many times, instead being a grimier version of England today that falls somewhere between Stanley Kubrick and Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys," humanity having given up hope on evolution or technological advances at this point.
This movie gives off a eerie effect of that this is the future in store for mankind. I recommend this to anyone.