Average and Unsuccessful Film Becomes IMDb's #147!

Rating: 6/10 (8 April 2007)

CHILDREN OF MEN is a fairly good futuristic drama --- with holes in its story a mile wide --- most of the premise unexplained and unresolved --- relatively unsuccessful at the box office; yet it becomes one of IMDb's All Time 250 --- and with a number of votes out-of-proportion to the number of people who have seen the picture.
When I rented the DVD last night, they had over 20 copies of this film whereas most other new releases were all checked out.
Results on IMDb will always be biased, as are the box office figures that reflect huge success of recent films with their $10 admissions mixed in with older films when admissions were 50 cents or less --- with no adjustment to constant dollars. But I suspect that Universal Pictures might have corrupted the vote on this picture and several other of their recent "hits". Universal is now just a shadow of the huge success they were in the 1970's and 1980's.
We enjoyed CHILDREN OF MEN, a good film but nothing special. Sadly, I have no idea how IMDb could control dishonest or paid-for input.