Vision squashes movie

Rating: 6/10 (18 July 2007)

There is an interview sidebar to this movie on the DVD, also compiled by Cuaron, called The Possibility of Hope. It details in much more direct fashion what he was going for in this pretend documentary with its action/thriller plot line that you have seen many times before. That is what I see as the problem: the plot is a cliché, and not enough interest in the characters was generated to redeem it. In fact one of the interviewees comments that the background of this movie is what is truly of interest, not the foreground. I agree. But both are necessary to produce something deserving of all the praise Children of Men has received. It only delivers half the goods.